According to legend, people united with the dream of heaven to build the tower to the sky, but they couldn't understand the language, and finally scattered things. As for today, the process of globalization seems to connect the world again. The influence of economic globalization has penetrated into people's lives in the past few years, but it is accompanied by conflicts between different cultures, so much so that the Trump election At the time, he even proposed to "build a wall!", and looted materials from other countries during the recent epidemic. Alas, the world doesn't seem to be integrated. Compared with the small tricks that Jesus played in the legend, what separates people now is different ideologies, the degree of development and the estrangement between people's hearts.
The story in the film develops in Tokyo, Mexico and Morocco, taking developed countries, developing countries and relatively backward countries respectively. In the developed city of Tokyo, it is the extreme loneliness of a deaf-mute girl. After witnessing her mother's suicide, she has nowhere to rely on her heart, and no one can confide in her (this is also a metaphor for her deaf-mute), in the noisy and colorful nightclub, she seems to want to. She uses noise to numb her, but what she desires most is the communication of her heart. She exposes her body again and again because of her need for others. This may also be the feeling of emptiness and loneliness that urban people cannot avoid. The lively Mexico is the director's hometown. The mother who worked as a nanny in the United States had to bring two children who needed to be taken care of to Mexico for the child's wedding. Here, people are happy, singing and dancing at weddings. However, when the nanny returned to the United States, she was harassed by the police and was eventually deported. In the eyes of Americans, she is a foreigner after all. In Morocco, a couple whose marriage was on the verge of breaking up faced life and death on a desolate land, when a child who tried a gun while shepherding a sheep shot his wife in the left shoulder. The wife who used to dislike the local ice now no longer has the pride of being a civilized person. In a dilapidated hut, she received simple treatment from a veterinarian, urinated on a plate, and found peace in the smoke of a witch. After leaving a highly civilized society, anyone was beaten back to their original shape. In the dilapidated hut, Cate Blanchett and the local witch had the most basic commonality.
At the end of the film, the director said: "Dedicated to my child. The darkest night, the brightest light." Now it seems that the night is heavier.
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