Volume IV Special Issue I January 2024

Name of Author : Meha N.S, Dr Nila N

Title of the paper : Hope and Chaos: A Study of Nadine Labakis Capernaum

Abstract: Millions of people have been displaced by the Syrian Civil War, and children who have fled to neighbouring countries like Lebanon and Turkey have suffered from moral decay and poverty. Similar harsh realities, such as child labour, delinquency, abuse, and neglect, developed after the Second World War, leaving many children orphaned. These kinds of postwar themes were emphasized in films by the Italian Neorealism movement. In the most impoverished and congested neighbourhoods of Beirut, Labakis film Capernaum shows how a failing political system and state cause individuals to be marginalized and denied their fundamental human rights. As the entire city descends into a chasm, it offers an intriguing image of a dystopian Beirut that now seems prescient. The new socioeconomic realities of the Syrian Civil War, such as child victimization, extreme poverty, and forced migration as a result of the conflict, are reflected in Capernaum. The ability of this movie to inspire empathy and pro-activism makes it significant. This film is a particularly enthusiastic incrimination of the disregard and maltreatment of kids living in neediness that the researcher was left feeling that the legitimate reaction was not a survey but rather a gift to Save the Youngsters ideally an enormous one. Notwithstanding, this is maybe out of line with the workmanship with which Labaki and her colleagues have figured out how to bundle the terrible, making an encounter that is disturbing yet in addition retaining it is difficult to watch and difficult to turn away. Capernaum is an old word that, as the credits illuminate us, implies bedlam. The filthy issue and relaxed savagery of neediness are plentifully present, yet contained by the films fairly traditional design, which continues in flashbacks outlined by court scenes that serve to a great extent to spread out data and sled home a message. However, the protagonist, Zain, a 12-year-old boy played with electrifying toughness, hurt, and grace by Syrian refugee Zain al-Rafeea, provides such a powerful gravitational center that the plot mechanics are hardly relevant.

Keywords : Refugee, migration, crisis, identity, poverty

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Page Number : 64-67