The water pipe at home is broken and leaks downstairs. In this case, find a repairman and it will be finished. Unexpectedly, such a small matter has caused national turmoil in Lebanon.
If they understood the old Chinese saying: forgive others and forgive them, things wouldn't be like this.
However, it is not difficult to understand that this happened in a country like Lebanon with internal and external troubles. Director Zed made a film based on his real experience, which was nominated for the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Some people say that this is the Lebanese version of "A Parting", which analyzes human nature, religion, belief, etc. through small everyday things.
(Movie "Shame")
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The neighborhood is undergoing a civic renovation project.
The foreman who contracted this project was Yasser, a Palestinian refugee who fled to Lebanon. During the construction process, Yasser found that the water pipe on the balcony of a family facing the street was broken, leaking water into the street.
(Foreman Yasser)
Yasser goes to repair the water pipes, but Tony, the owner of the house, does not let Yasser in. In order to meet the deadline, Tony built a ladder and fixed the pipeline outside the balcony. But Tony didn't appreciate it, he picked up the hammer and smashed the pipe.
(Tony picks up the hammer and smashes the pipe that Yasir had repaired)
An angry Yasser scolds Tony as a bastard. Tony immediately complained to Yasser's company, and the company asked Yasser to apologize to Tony. Unexpectedly, in the process of apology, the contradiction was further intensified: Yasser cut his heart with a black tiger and broke two of Tony's ribs.
(Yahil, a black tiger digs his heart and breaks your two ribs)
The matter goes to court. The first-instance judge rejected the plaintiff Tony's request and acquitted Yasser, but Tony's friends and his fellow Christians disagreed with the verdict.
After Tony went back, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He was irritable, unhappy, tossing and turning. A baby girl was born prematurely, and the baby girl lives on a ventilator in the intensive care unit.
(Tony's daughter was born prematurely and lives on a ventilator)
Things got even bigger, and Tony appealed.
(Two waves of lawyers fighting each other)
At this point, things are beyond the control of both parties. Two waves of lawyers quarreled in court, not only citing legal provisions, but also dug up various privacy of the two people.
Outside the court, Palestinian refugees who supported Yasser and Lebanese Christians who supported Tony fought each other, and the civil dispute between the two gradually turned into national unrest. All kinds of TV stations and tabloids rushed forward, with a life-and-death attitude.
(A water pipe causes unrest in the country)
The life experiences of Yasser and Tony were dug up.
Yasser is a Palestinian refugee who fled to Lebanon from the war-torn motherland. He belongs to a minority and has no normal job, so he can only maintain his life in the form of black labor. But Yasser is faithful and reliable. He never cuts corners in his work. For the sake of construction safety and engineering quality, he does not hesitate to challenge the boss of the company.
(The dull and honest Palestinian refugee Yasir)
At the same time, he was quiet and insensitive. Not only would he not apologize to anyone, but he would also refuse to repeat the other person's insults to him in court. He is a typical engineering man, just such a person, how could he have conflicts with Tony over and over again?
Because, Tony yelled at him "If only Sharon wiped you out from the start". Shouting this sentence to the Palestinian refugees is tantamount to shouting to the Jews, "I wish Hitler killed you back then." The lethality can be imagined.
(I ask you to insult Yasir)
Let's look at Tony again. He has tattoos all over his arms and makes a living by repairing cars. Although he has a bad temper, his family loves his wife. He is also a down-to-earth laborer, why did he insult Yasser like this?
(Tony, the owner of the auto repair shop)
(Tony crying with wife and premature daughter)
It turned out that he was persecuted by the war in his youth and almost died in the massacre of the militants. Growing up, Tony became an ardent Christian right-winger, a group characterized by: staunch support for Basil Gemayel, against Palestinian refugees.
(Inciting speech by party leader Bashir Gemayel)
It is precisely because of the knot in his heart and the perennial bewitched by radicals that Tony hated Yasser, the Palestinian refugee, from the very beginning.
The dispute between the two of them caused an uproar, and various riots broke out in the city, and the president had to come forward. The president asked the two to reconcile, end the strife and keep the country stable, but that didn't happen.
But a turnaround has crept in: from the president's office, the two drive home. Yasser's car couldn't catch fire. Although Tony had already driven away, he drove back to help him fix the car. After that, Yasser smiled knowingly at Tony...
(The two have a knowing smile)
How did the court finally decide? How does this story end? I recommend everyone to watch this movie and leave me a message if you want to see it.
The story of a water pipe causing unrest in the country seems bizarre, but it is not difficult to understand in Lebanon.
Lebanon has many political parties and complex sectarian composition. The land area is only over 10,000 square kilometers and the population is over 6 million. However, there are more than 100 parties and groups and more than 40 militia armed forces.
As a strategic point in Asia, Africa and Europe, Lebanon has been captured and occupied by other powerful countries for many times. It is also one of the buffer zones for the disputes and expansion of the two worlds of Islam and Christianity. It is also the only two religions in the Arab world composed of Islam and Christianity. and countries that can basically tolerate each other.
In modern times, Lebanon is still a country that integrates various issues such as ethnicity, belief, religion, war, and geography.
As early as 1975, a 15-year civil war broke out between the Christian and Islamic factions in Lebanon. In 2005, Lebanon saw a series of assassinations of high-level political leaders, and even triggered the "Cedar Revolution" (which also involves the country of Syria). Since then, Lebanon has also experienced incidents such as the "Israeli conflict" and "2008 civil strife".
Internal and external troubles have made the country extremely fragile, and conflicts between different religions have exacerbated social rifts. This complex context makes people have to believe that a single swear word is enough to detonate the country's sensitive nerves.
The story is based on the real experience of director Zed Doyle.
(Director Zed Doyle)
Director Zed Dorry is a Lebanese and once used discriminatory insults during a quarrel with a plumber. The good friend kindly reminded him that "misfortune comes out of his mouth" and asked him to apologize, but the plumber refused the director's admission, and the contractor almost fired the plumber for this. Personal experience, let Zide smell the taste of the movie story.
In the movie "Shame", court charges occupy most of the space. Is verbal violence more harmful than physical violence? Whether Tony's wife's premature birth should be blamed on the defense... A series of dilemmas, spit out like a series of brilliant beads, and the nearly two-hour movie is not boring at all.
Director Zed once said, "Court films are modern Westerns, and they are more close-range face-to-face duels." Even Zed himself was born in a judicial family, and the mother of a veteran lawyer played the role of legal advisor in "Shame".
(Joel Touma, co-writer of Dishonored)
In reality, the friend who asked Zed to apologize to the plumber, Joel Touma, the co-writer of "Shame", came from a religious family that was the exact opposite of director Zed. The tacit understanding of the two people in their work, as well as their excellent film work, prove that there is no absolute feud in the world, and there is no gap that cannot be crossed. The so-called hatred is only caused by closing the channel of listening and mutual understanding because of each other. .
"Shame" was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, nominated for the Golden Lion Award in the main competition section of the 74th Venice Film Festival, and nominated for Best Actor in the Volpi Cup. In terms of lighting effects and camera movement, Dishonored is an excellent work.
The movie doesn't look like a typical "Middle Eastern" or "foreign language" movie, but more like a "Hollywood" movie. The film gives people the feeling that the chapters are neat and tactile, it is fun and dripping, and it has an aftertaste. What is even more rare is that the large lines of lines do not make people feel "serious" or violated. It is a good movie with a well-behaved narrative, but does not forget to intersperse and express opinions "carefully".
The reason why he has a Hollywood temperament is that the director has been trained in American films for a long time. He was Quentin's assistant photographer in his early years, working on such films as Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Dead Twilight.
This film was compared with the Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards. , belief, etc. Such a comparison can be seen from the fans' praise for the film.
(Classic movie "A Farewell")
The two films also have one thing in common: the directors are optimistic about human nature and the future. It is a pity that the real Arab world is still in tension. The territorial disputes, religious disputes and painful war memories accumulated in history cannot be resolved in a short period of time. Politics is always disappointing... I hope it will be as the director wishes. The mutual understanding between them can finally overcome the hatred between nations and the great sorrow of history, to heal the scars of reality.
May the world be at peace.
(Ci Shiping)
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