What does the movie Babel mean?

Twelve people, three countries, four different fates, and an accidental event all originated from that unintentional gunshot ... The network of destiny is intertwined with souls of different races, regions and cultural backgrounds. Everyone in the world is inextricably linked. In the 1960s, American social psychologist Meyer Glenn put forward the theory of "six-degree division". He thinks that as long as you have six people, you can establish contact with any stranger. However, the thread of this connection is so weak that even if we are aware of each other's existence, we still can't hear each other's struggling cries, and even if we do, we still can't understand and communicate meaningfully. After the movie, a subtitle appeared: "For my children. The darkest night, the brightest light. " Obviously, this is by no means a desperate movie, but a story of struggling in a desperate world, regarding children as the hope of the future. The bright world will be built by them, and the tower of heaven will be built by them. May the future world be free from misunderstanding, estrangement and sadness.

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This story involves six families, ten characters, three countries, and four languages are used ... "Babel" continues the director's style of alejandro gonzalez inarritu, and likes to set off the whole story in a disorderly environment, and then pieced together scattered death memorials to form a political atmosphere with a unique style and a clear stand, satirizing the hypocrisy of the so-called "cultural integration" and emitting a frightening "white noise". This is the third collaboration between Inarito and screenwriter guillermo arriaga after Love is a Bitch and 2 1 gram, and it is also the end of the trilogy originally agreed. The story also ends in tragedy. When human stupidity and carelessness are constantly superimposed, even if it has nothing to do with desire and inferiority, the consequences are equally terrible and can also be the fuse of international political conflicts.

Morocco

The story begins in a desert in Morocco. A shepherd got a rifle from a Japanese tourist to protect his sheep from jackals. However, this rifle fell into the hands of the shepherd's two young sons by mistake. In order to check the range of the rifle, a station wagon coming from a distance pulled the trigger. ...

Susan and Richard, a couple from California, are sitting in a station wagon. They have just lost their third child and are immersed in grief. In order to save their marriage on the verge of breaking up, they chose to come to Morocco for a "self-help" road trip. However, Susan was suddenly hit by a bullet from the sky, bleeding profusely ... The nearest hospital also takes four hours by car. In order to wait for rescuers, Richard took Susan to a remote village and watched her life pass in despair. A wise and calm mother-in-law and the village veterinarian tried their best. Richard first asked the American embassy for help, and then he called his home in San Diego. Amelia, the nanny who has lived with the couple for 1 1 years, answered the phone. Richard, who suffered a series of blows, felt that he was about to collapse. In a trembling voice, he begged Amelia to take good care of the other two children at home.

The theme of this paragraph is "loss" and "loneliness". When a person is in a strange environment and suddenly changes, that kind of loss and anxiety will be particularly obvious, especially for Richard whose child has just died. Helplessness in the desert is not the most terrible, and he can no longer bear the pain of "loss". Brad Pitt grasped Richard's emotions well. The middle-aged man who suppressed his anger was almost destroyed by a flood of frustration. Susan, played by Cate Cate Blanchett, is blindly immersed in her personal world. In this closed small space, there is melancholy and silent silence everywhere. In addition, there is a mockery of the "enthusiasm" of the security department, because while Richard is taking care of Susan, the shooting incident has been subjectively characterized as a terrorist attack, and even the target has been followed. These anti-terrorism experts don't know that everything is actually just an accident for two children to play.

Santiago-Mexico border

Amelia, who stayed in San Diego, California, actually had her own arrangements-to attend her son's wedding. Amelia decided to take her two children to the Mexican border to attend her son's wedding because she couldn't find a suitable person to take care of the children and because of her nephew's encouragement. However, when they return to the United States from Mexico, they may be accused of kidnapping American children, so they are prepared to cross the border illegally with them. The wedding went smoothly. Amelia's nephew had a few drinks, but on the way back, they met the checkpoint. The dizzy nephew left Amelia and the two children and drove away alone. ...

This is really the most powerful refutation of President Bush's contradictory and extremely hypocritical immigration policy. This story featuring Amelia also represents the present situation of thousands of Mexicans living in the United States. Amelia is restricted by the double standards of the Mexican and American governments, but there is no basic guarantee. Are so-called "invisible" citizens. Marginal people like Amelia are not protected by immigration laws. Even though she lived with an American couple for 1 1 year and raised their two children, she is still an illegal immigrant. Gail Garcí a bernal plays Amelia's Mexican nephew. He is not mean, but he is impulsive and unreliable. ...

Tokyo, Japan

This story seems to have nothing to do with the other two. A deaf-mute girl in Tokyo, Japan, her mother's suicide left a great psychological shadow on her. The girl can only relieve her pain a little by torturing her father who is also immersed in the grief of losing her loved one. She openly flirts with boys in public, has abnormal sexual relations with different people, and even has a hobby of bare body ... This Japanese girl, who is in a rebellious period of youth, expresses the pain of "loss" in a completely different way. She thought that increasing other people's pain would alleviate her own pain, but in fact she was completely wrong, which would only increase her own pain.

This story is not completely unrelated to Morocco and Santiago as it seems. Japanese father is the real owner of rifle. When he went hunting in Morocco, he gave it to the local tour guide as a thank-you gift ... It's a bit far-fetched to connect them with such clues, but the deaf-mute girl has such a strong purpose and puts it into action, which is unmatched by the other two stories dominated by fate. Highly modern Tokyo is both fashionable and cold, and it is also a symbol of sharp contrast with the hot and dirty desert. "Loneliness" is not terrible. The terrible thing is that when you are surrounded by your wife, children and friends, you will still feel lonely. "Poor communication" occurs not only in two countries with huge cultural differences, but also between you and the person sleeping next to you.