BABEL

I saw "Babel" yesterday with my friend. "Babel" is a story about how different races misunderstand each other due to their lack of communications. Three stories are set in different countries and the whole stories are eventually all linked, though there is no direct connection between all of the characters. Two young boys in Morocco who accidentally shoot an American tourist and the American woman who was shot by one of the kids (Cate Branchett ) and her husband (Brad Pitt) who frantically tries to save her life in a different language environment. The couple’s two little kids at home in San Diego and their Mexican nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with the two. And in Tokyo, a deaf-mute school girl (Rinko Kikuchi) who goes crazy with loneliness and her father (Koji Yakusho) who is often absent from home.

Each of the individual stories deals with the lack of communication. So, the message is very clear how human’s inability of communication causes confusion so they cannot make an appropriate decision. I also felt like the film was trying to show that communication with care and love was crucial rather than understanding of language.

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