Some Views about the Film Bable

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First here is the story of Babel. According to Bible, the people were conceited and tried to build Babel in order to converse with God directly. But God was extremely angered and therefore confused their language so that they could not communicate with each other and failed in building Babel. On the planet people inhabit in different background, growing up in different society and cultural environment, inheriting different traditions and ideas, speaking different language, believing in different religions. There are so much diversity that sometimes people are not able to communicate with and understand each other. Therefore, our world is indeed rather like Babel and everyone lives in it, without exception for the characters in the films Babel. All of them are the victims of misunderstanding.
  The American couple’s marriage does not go on well for they are not able to communicate with each other after the death of their third son. Due to the sensitiveness and the sense of insecurity of the American government and the public, the fact that Susan is shot during the tour in Morocco is taken as a terrorist attack, and the couple is left behind in a poor village in the desert by their fellow tourists and the government refuses to carry out rescue action. In the same way, Mexico is regarded as a dangerous country and Mexicans as dangerous people. Even the little boy Mike is instilled with this bias, as he says that his mother has told him that Mexico is full of danger when he and his sister are brought there by their nanny and her nephew to her son’s wedding. After the wedding, on their way home, the Mexico nanny and her nephew are viewed as kidnappers for the simple reason that they are with two American children. When the nanny loses the children in the desert, she is confronted with being repatriated to her home country and is even deprived of the right of appealing. She can not be accepted and forgiven and has to leave America even though she has worked there for 16 years and has everything there, as she relates in a begging way. The misfortune also falls on the Japanese girl, who is accepted by her normal peers simply due to her deaf-mute. As she has accused, even her father does not look into her eyes when talking to her. In order to be cared and accepted, she takes drugs, indulges herself and even is willing to sacrifice her virginity. But she still fails. The misunderstanding also leads to the dispute between the two young Moroccan brothers. Who has not watched their fight in sorrow when they reveal to their father that they have shot the American woman?
   As the caption appearing at the end of the film reads” the brightest light in the darkest night”, love serves as the brightest light in the dark world of inharmony and solves all the problems. Thanks to love, the American couple overcomes the difficulty and suffering and reunites. Thanks to love, the couple’s tour guide helps them with full heart and soul. Thanks to love, in the desert, the nanny leaves the remained water to the children and searches for help under the burning sun. Thanks to love, the younger Moroccan brother surrenders to the police to save his brother. Thanks to love, the Japanese girl gained her father’s care.
  When the American couple kiss passionately in the miserable circumstances, when the nanny is in persistent search for help in spite of being scalded, when the younger brother recalls the scene when he and his brother try to embrace the wind on the top of a hill, when the Japanese girl throws herself into her father’s arms, who has not been moved? And that is the power of love, which not only moves people in their mood but also moves them into action.