At first, I didn't want to review the movie, just give it the highest rating and leave it at that because I don't think I am worthy to judge it. And here I am, writing this, not because I have become any worthier but because people need to watch it. Capernaum tugs at your heartstrings and makes you ache. It's painful, and not in an ordinary way. I watched the movie a few days back and I still think about it. It's definitely made me more grateful for the things I have. The actors don't feel like they're acting (to some extent they're not), it feels like a reality, their innocent eyes describing a journey most of the world was unaware of.

I want to recommend this to everyone, but if you're at a low point in your life or show signs of depression, avoid it, you suffer enough. I watched most of the film with tears streaming down my face and at the end, I just sat in the dark with the credits rolling and wondering about the world we live in.

Capernaum is a masterpiece.

This movie was almost unwatchable for me at time because of its heartbreaking depiction of life on the streets of a big city. The scenes with the 12 year pulling around the infant in a big pot as he sought to provide for them both made me cry. There's so much pain in the world!

Zain Al Rafeea is about 12.... he thinks. He lives with his parents in a bombed-out walk-up in Beirut. The family business seems to be getting drugs using fake prescriptions, crushing them up, dissolving the powder, sopping up the liquid in clothes and then drying the clothes. It looks like an interesting method of drug smuggling. Zain also works as a delivery boy for the landlord, and it's clear he's been sexually abused. When his eleven-year-old sister gets her period, their parents sell her to the landlord and Zain runs away.

It's two hours six minutes of an expertly written, performed and recorded demonstration of why it's a bad thing to be ignorant and poor and helpless in a bombed-out city. I'm sure that all the people who had no idea that it was so who saw this movie had their minds blown. I'm just unaware of having anything to say to people like that.