Film Analysis: Capernaum By Nadine Labaki

Film analysis: Capernaum by Nadine Labaki.

Capernaum (“Chaos”) is a poignant drama movie made in 2018, written and directed by Nadine Labaki and shot by Christopher Aoun BVK. A non-professional actor Zain Al Rafeea in his major film role, as a poor, undocumented, 12-year-old boy, through his parents, sues the world for giving him life. The film director uses flashback structure, shifting between Zain’s past and the current time in the courtroom. The most important topics in Capernaum are poverty, childhood and society’s inhumanity, filmed in the Lebanese streets with a real story and real life experience of those people. This movie won Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and in FICFA won as a Best Foreign Film. Capernaum is a heart touching movie which would appeal to an audience of people who are interested in what is happening around the world and who want to see why 90 per cent of children in poor countries do not want to live.