The most popular saying in 2006 was: The world is flat. In "Babel", a gun from Japan was held by a Moroccan boy and hit an American who was traveling on a bus. At the American home, the Mexican nanny brought two American children to Mexico because he was going home to attend his son's wedding. Four countries and four families are united with just one gun. It seems that the world is indeed flat. But in this flat world, there are many walls, walls of the soul, allowing human beings to live in their own world and never communicate with each other. Why is it the gun and not something else that binds them together? Maybe that gun is a symbol, a symbol of refusal to communicate and understand. It is like the Tower of Babel destroyed by God.
The wall has two levels. The first is the wall between civilizations. Americans seem to have everything and run the world. But they live in a world of fear. cate Throw away ice cubes for fear of unhygienic; accidentally being attacked is associated with terrorism; injured people are sent to the small town with fearful eyes; American children face the anxiety and fear of strange Mexico..... a general A country where neighbors are regarded as suspected criminals, with whom to communicate? In the eyes of Moroccans and Mexicans, Americans are nothing but rich people from another distant world. Looking up to see, I can’t afford to climb high, and I don’t even have basic equality. What kind of exchanges can I talk about?
The second is the wall inside civilization. The hatred and incomprehension between the Japanese father and daughter; the American couple's marriage is on the verge of breaking up; the car-mate left them after cate was injured; the quarrel between the younger brother and the elder brother about peeping the naked girl; the Japanese dumb girl can't find it Love; the rudeness and barbarism of the Moroccan police towards the villagers and the father and son; the two American children are tortured by their own national system...what is this world? Wall of jungle. We are lost in this dense forest, clinging to our own walls, extremely lonely and fearful, but we can't get out. The Tower of Babel is deep in our souls and has nothing to do with God.
In the movie, the origin of guns, Japan, seems to be a bit detached from the main line. A Japanese mute girl whose father was away all year round, and her mother committed suicide. The interaction between the mute girl and her peers was restricted by language. She had a strong desire to be unloved. She used drugs, was drunk in dance halls, exposed her genitals to boys, and seduce doctors. , Performing extreme communication with people by various means such as naked in front of the police officers who came to investigate the case. Finally, with the help of a kind police officer, can she get out of her wall?
The world shown in the whole movie is like a huge airplane. The United States is the nose, Morocco and Mexico are two wings, and Japan is the tail behind. The United States is arrogant but fearful; Japan is repressive and perverted, Morocco is poor and tyrannical; Mexico is happy but regarded as a criminal by its strong neighbors. Such planes cannot be combined together, let alone fly.
The film wrote in the final dedication: Dedicated to my child. The darkest night, the brightest light. When will the darkest night last? Where is the brightest light? In the passionate kiss of cate and brad's reconciliation? In the tearful embrace of a Japanese father and daughter? So, what about the family of a Moroccan shepherd? What about the desperation of the Mexican nanny being repatriated? Between light and dark, will this huge plane in the world have a day to soar in the blue sky?
I can't find the answer. What if the world is flat?
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