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Capernaum (Capharnaüm)
The lack of registration is of course unusual in the same as the lack of electricity. You've got to pay for it, and most do so. But when you belong to the unprivileged class, your priorities will no longer follow what you consider "usual". And that's why you still fail to understand because you are still measuring things according to your ivory tower way of life. Writing your reviews from the comfort of your couch, your desk, or in a cafe! And this is were I find that your review does not fit altogether! (Ironical, to see how your review lacks the same elements you are accusing the film of! Hence I invite you another time to review your own reviews.) The review length has nothing to do with the quality of the content as long as you treat negative and positive sides proportionally. Unfortunately, your obvious prejudice prevents you from making a balanced choice, and you chose the unprofessional way to selectively, and unfairly, highlight only the negative points to spread your misconception on the readers who have no information about the movie but this unjust "review".— January 12, 2019 11:51 a.m.
Capernaum (Capharnaüm)
Refugees or not, the cost to register birth, believe it or not, is not free in some parts of the world, but yet you assume as a reviewer that a movie should only target US audiences and therefore should explicitly spend all of its duration explaining the country's political/cultural/juridical background, because focusing on the human side should be done in 5 minutes. | "It was indeed impressive. But that doesn't make it a good movie." With that contradicting statement, all what you've wrote and all what you've graded, do not make it a good review! To give one star, and to bury deliberately from your review, what you've just admitted as "impressive", are just discrediting your ethical choices regarding your work. A constructive review does not highlight solely what does not work, it should equally mention what was nicely done. I hope you'll understand, one day, objective criticism regarding your work, in the same way when you strike your criticism (objective or not) towards others' works. Maybe, just maybe, you'll accept to review your "reviews". Regards.— January 12, 2019 7:55 a.m.
Capernaum (Capharnaüm)
Electronic or not, the least is to check and verify facts. It's in the job description! Regarding the registration situation, it's appallingly incomprehensible how would someone expects everyone to be living in the same comfort as they! Digest this: if your system makes it easy for you to register a birth, it's not necessary the same everywhere! Do all undocumented refugees in your country register themselves, or their children to authorities? Did you bother looking that registering a birth in that middle eastern country would cost the parents more than a $100, a value that unfortunate class would invest in food and more urgent necessities? And to top all your negligence in the article, you rate it with the lowest possible score!!! I may not be an expert, but couldn't you notice the directing talent in this movie to handle such young non-professional kid and toddler to come up with such performances? Couldn't you scratch the surface a little to appreciate, in the tiniest possible way, how the writers tied the knot of the vicious cycle in this intelligent story? In case you aren't able to process the events yet: The parents under the harsh situation sold their daughter to marriage, Zain revolted against this act and escaped home, Zain under the harsh situation sold the younger person he was supposed to care about, making him repeat the same act of his parents that he rejected. I couldn't help but deducing you made a prejudgement about the movie even before watching it, and all you care about afterwards was to highlight elements that would incorrectly enforce your unfair prejudice.— January 11, 2019 4:44 p.m.
Capernaum (Capharnaüm)
Given the entirety of this "review", that’s been said and done before. What a misleading review, full of snobbism! To start, it declares an incorrect duration of the movie. If it wasn't the minimal job of a reviewer to provide such easy to check information! I wonder if this unfortunate "reviewer" always questions the financial situations of all characters in all movies he "reviews". Or is it simply because he's allergic to witness how lower class people survive? Did he ever ask how a rich character in a movie ended up in such situation? Pity to see how pretentious people, failing their homework as "reviewers", reveal how much they are devoid from any humanism.— January 11, 2019 8:36 a.m.