Tower of Babel is a common term and representation in Western culture. It symbolizes human potential, human power and human possibilities. If humans can communicate without barriers and without gaps, and regard each other as a common species and common life, then they could have easily built the Tongtian Pagoda, Then challenge God, replace God, and become God. It is this kind of power that frightens God, so God confuses his voice, splits and kills mankind, and cannot form a common whole. Human beings are social animals, but each individual life is an absolute island. For every modern person, loneliness is unbearable and even difficult to overcome forever. There is a saying: each of our lives is imprisoned in our skin, we cannot jump out of the prison of skin and truly reach another soul, another life, communication cannot come from the transcendence of the mighty God The destiny is a curse, a condemnation.
The Japanese girl section of the film shows the difficulty of a deaf-mute person communicating directly with others. But in the story, the language barrier is not a prominent element. The language here is extended to a broader symbolic level-the difficulty of communication and communication lies in the spiritual barrier and the alienation between people. Especially in the American family period, both parties tried to recover the symptoms of a middle-aged marriage crisis. Communication is a manifestation of letting the flow go when the crisis arises, but it is a reluctant way to do it. Another association and fragile theme in this film about the communication dilemma is how humans desperately face the experience of bereavement. If death only tells a fact of life, then bereavement highlights the life’s attitude towards death. Face with experience. The most tragic experience in life is the bereavement of a young father, a young wife, and a child in his later years. We all know that children are the last link to maintain fragile families. Sociological analysis tells us that few couples can maintain their marriage after losing their children or daughters, because the other party is the witness and reminder of this painful experience. Most marriages are disintegrated after experiencing such a tragic experience. Facing the dead, every living person has become a survivor in a relative sense. The problem girl’s huge self-blame is why her mother committed suicide. Is it because I’m a deaf and mute person? This is the level potentially touched by this story. Forgiven the sins of being a survivor. One of the most powerful expressions is the alienation and separation between us in the context of the era of globalization.
Globalization
1. The day the word globalization was born, it drew criticism. The most powerful criticism is that globalization has caused the income gap between poor and rich countries to further widen, and unfair sentiment has caused international hostility. The "clash of civilizations" caused by different values and the contradictions caused by the widening income gap caused by injustice are intertwined, forming a new confrontation. 2. The globalization of culture is approximately equal to Americanization. Almost the middle class in the world molds themselves in the American middle class way. Especially in the movie, the way American middle-class couples travel, the emotional state between the couples, and the details of the quasi-vegan’s healthy lifestyle can be seen to have a great impact on our lives. 3. This movie spanned four countries and three continents, and became a veritable picture of the world, or a picture of globalization. In the era of globalization, mobility is its most prominent feature, and capital mobility is more powerful than global population mobility. So there is a saying: Capital knows no borders. An important line of immigration is called the bottom immigrants, illegal immigrants. In the film, the Mexican maid Alicia is an illegal immigrant. In the end, a series of incidents led to a tragic fate. Of course, the rules of the game must be set. The strong side, and it can be seen from the attitude of the US police that this judgment has not been demonized in the slightest. It is undeniable that there is a large-scale mobile labor class around the world. The government adopts the strictest prevention system and the strictest punishment system for this class, but in fact, from Western Europe to the United States all rely on illegal labor to a certain extent.
"The murder" caused by a shotgun
The gun is a clue and an accidental catalyst for cause and effect before and after the tragedy. It brings out the ingenious structure of the three-stage story, and also becomes a limitation of the three-stage story. A pistol affected the fate of several families. When a shot accidentally hit a tourist car full of American tourists and hit an American tourist, what did it cause? All the media reported it as an important event, and it was even distorted as: An American class was attacked by terrorists. After reaching a conclusion, it immediately rises to the political level: the diplomatic tension and confrontation between the two countries. Another ridiculous expression is that when the U.S. government learns that a citizen of its own country has been attacked, the injured U.S. citizen is not only unable to receive timely assistance, because the experience of a U.S. citizen immediately rises to the experience of a country, then a U.S. The national interests immediately override the personal interests of American citizens. Later, a Moroccan veterinarian in the countryside made a decisive decision to save the life of the American citizen. At the critical moment of rescue, American citizens completely ignored their compatriots and the fact that the lives of injured tourists were at stake. The brilliance of human nature did not flash for a moment, but the evil of human nature appeared.
The end of the film seems to give a power of salvation, a perfect ending in the sense of restructuring relative to the American family. Although the children of the American family were injured, they were finally rescued. The marital crisis of the middle-aged couple was healed by this disaster. The father and daughter of the Japanese bourgeois family finally reached a reconciliation with each other. And Asilia forever left the United States where she lived for 16 years, and the Moroccan brothers flew in the mountains in eagle outfits, and this scene will never exist.
"To my child, the brightest star in the darkest night." In the face of the life course we must encounter and the inability to change the present order, we still have to hope for life. This also brings out another meaning of Tongtian Tower: human reconciliation, the possibility and hope of human communication. It is first manifested in the flash of family affection, of course, this is far from enough...
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