About estrangement and communication

Because of Lust and Caution, I think of the Tower of Babel. I've watched the latter twice. The first time I saw the gun version at home, it was not very clear. Later, I went to the cinema and watched it again. The effect was very good, but it was a clean version. Comparing the gun version and the clean version is a very interesting thing, you can study the idea of ​​scissors of the film bureau. It can be roughly summarized as violence + pornography + bad behavior. Violence refers to scenes that are a little bloody, such as Moroccan police beating gun dealers, Mexicans slashing chicken necks with their bare hands, and pornography refers to scenes that expose the body, such as Japanese girls showing off hair and full nudity at the end. The coverage of bad behavior is broad, including any discordant footage, such as the pleasure of a Japanese teenage girl taking drugs. After all these scenes have been deleted, "Tower of Babel" can only be released in the cinema, because to protect the physical and mental health of children, they cannot be taught to fight, kill chickens, learn to take drugs, seduce adults, and stay naked in the house. Wander around. In this way our society can be more harmonious. For this, adults have to make sacrifices, even if the film is cut to pieces. Of course this helps to develop our leap-forward thinking. But someone has to say, why not grade it? It's not good to get what you need. The film bureau said again, isn't grading the same as admitting a third-grade film? We are a socialist country and cannot import capitalist dregs. You must know that Lust Caution is set as NC-17 in the United States, which is equivalent to a fifth-grade film. Can it be done without cutting? Considering that we cannot have both, we have no choice but to thank the great kindness of the film bureau, otherwise we will not want to see any film.

Closer to home. "Babel" has a typical Mexican style. Together with "Love is a Bitch" and "21 Grams", it is called the "Barrier Trilogy". The ultimate in full stop". The original meaning of the Tower of Babel in the Bible refers to the gap caused by language barriers. In the film, the meaning is obviously expanded, and other factors have become the biggest obstacle to communication. Because Japanese girls are deaf and mute, they cannot communicate with normal people, and they cannot fall in love with normal people; American couples cannot communicate with each other because of their relationship, and their families are facing breakdown; Moroccan brothers are almost against each other because of jealousy and dissatisfaction; Mexican nanny because of racial discrimination, Suspected of kidnapping American children by police. In fact, estrangement is everywhere. Language barriers, different interests, cultural differences, and political differences bring many problems. After the American wife was shot, the husband called for help everywhere but no one understood. After being trapped in the small village, other passengers, fearing for their own safety, left them and drove away. The U.S. government and the Moroccan government blamed each other, preventing ambulances from leaving and helicopters being delayed. Communication is a major problem in modern society. With the development of transportation, physical distance is no longer a problem. The Internet has turned the world into a global village, but the gap between people is getting bigger and bigger. From a family to a country, from a small suspicion to a war. Without mutual understanding and trust, the world cannot be a better place. Like the ancient Babylonian tower, without a common language, it can never be built.

"Babel" has a multi-threaded narrative structure and a global vision, with communication as the main line and shotgun as the lead, strung together four seemingly unrelated stories thousands of miles apart, both ideological and ornamental than "Crash". It's a pity that you can't get the little golden man. Oscar's aesthetic standard has always been known for being conservative and mediocre, and it is also called the peerless double pride with our film bureau :)

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