According to the "Bible · Old Testament", the ancestors of human beings originally spoke the same language. They found a piece of extremely fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates, so they settled there, built cities, and built a prosperous Babel (ie, the city of Babylon). Later, their days got better and better, and people were so proud of their achievements that they decided to build a tower in Babylon that reached the sky to extol their illustrious name and serve as a sign to gather brothers all over the world, so as not to be scattered. Because everyone communicated in the same language and worked together, the stepped Babel Tower was built very smoothly, and soon it was soaring into the sky. When the Lord God heard of this, he immediately descended from the kingdom of heaven to inspect the earth. When God saw it, he was shocked and angry, because God does not allow mortals to reach their own heights. He saw that people were so unified and strong, and he thought, if people speak the same language, they can build such a giant tower. What can't be done in the future? So, God decided to confuse the language of the world, so that people could not understand each other. So the word Babel has linguistically different meanings.
The two-hour-long film took me into a story, and this is a story that really happens to you and me every day. The film starts from an unintentional gunshot that wounded a female tourist who came to travel as a clue. Twelve people, three countries, and four different destinies. There are intricate relationships between everyone in the world, and the intertwined web of fate incorporates souls from different races, regions, and cultural backgrounds. This is a story of misunderstanding, estrangement and sadness, and I read an important word from this film - communication.
During the viewing process, I kept thinking over and over again, since when did an invisible barrier form between us, since when did we not sit down and listen to each other's voices carefully, since when did we become familiar with the world around us. Apathy and coldness everywhere.
In the 1960s, American social psychologist Milgren put forward the theory of "six degrees of separation". He believes that with just six people, you can connect with any unfamiliar individual. But how weak the thread of this connection is, even if we realize the existence of each other, we still cannot hear each other's struggle and cry, and even if we hear it, we still cannot understand and cannot communicate meaningfully.
However, this is by no means a desperate movie, but a story of hopeful struggle in a world of despair.
At the end of the film, the daughter and her father hug each other tightly to release their suspicions, and the injured American returns home.
At the end of the film, a subtitle appeared: "To my children. The darkest night, the brightest light."
Going out of Babel, or crossing Babel, means overcoming the language barrier and realizing the difference between different cultures. mutual understanding of people.
May the future world be free from misunderstanding, estrangement and sadness.
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