Then I remembered what Sabina said in "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" that she didn't like glass rooms, and there was another sentence that was particularly impressive. Generally speaking, the most terrifying thing in this world is not the Nazi dictatorship or communism Doctrine or something concrete, but all waving the same pamphlets and shouting the same slogans. Is a society without misunderstandings really the best? Or is the gist of the movie "Babel Tower" really hope that the future world is not misunderstood?
I don't know much about this, so I also mentioned it in the title. My feeling about this movie is "unclear". The story of "Crash" is very smooth and comfortable to watch. There are not many major truths in the original intention. Although you can realize a lot of major truths after watching it, I prefer such movies, but "Babel Tower" is not like this, very Few people can say they fully understand after reading it for the first time. There are not many obscure things that can be said, but there are definitely a lot. Generally speaking, I do not fully understand the motivation of the director.
Let’s talk a little bit about something that I don’t seem to see in other film reviews:
talk about forbidden love in “Babel Tower” in particular, it seems that not many people talk about it.
For example, the Mexican maid, everyone remembers the scene where she made out with the old man at her son's wedding in the movie, and she also stretched the scene, so it's hard to forget. What is the relationship between them? In fact, I had a question before, why did the maid go to the United States to work and leave her family in Mexico? I always don't understand this problem. Look at her son and look at her nephew. She doesn't seem to be very poor or hard. Of course, you can say things like smuggling to the United States to work for high wages, etc., but always explain Not sure, here's a point, Mexico's economy is not as good as the United States, but overall they are still very rich, don't think of Mexicans as African refugees. But as soon as I listened to the conversation between her and the old man, I understood most of it: the old lover's wife had been dead for several years, but the Mexican maid just found out today, what does it mean? She hasn't been back in years. In addition, the maid has worked in the United States for ten years, and she may have come back for a short stay. How did she know this old man? I must have known each other before I went, ah, but the old man's wife hadn't died ten years ago, so she should have participated as a third party. And why is the old man invited to the wedding, if the son knows the relationship between the mother and the old man, he should not be so lenient to let the old man in. The following are a few guesses: the son is actually the illegitimate son of the old man, the maid may have been the old man's maid before, etc. These are all based on insufficient basis and only for inspiration.
Then there is the part where two Moroccan teenagers peeped at the girl taking a bath, and my brother hid in the corner after watching the sheep, don't tell me you don't know what he's doing...or what he's thinking. The key is why the elder brother (the one with Gao, I think it should be the elder brother) is so against his younger brother's behavior and says he is disgusting? Because the girl is their sister! I wonder why many people don't bring this up. Isn't that girl under the same roof with them all the time? It should be the child of their father's other wife. You know, Arabs can't only marry one wife. Judging by the degree of closeness, it doesn't seem to be their father's daughter, (this is not certain), but now she is her sister after all, so her brother will feel "disgusting".
One of them didn't understand, why are there conflicts between American couples? Husband ran away because the baby died? It feels unreasonable, not clear.
Finally, there is a Japanese girl. I saw someone say that the girl and her father were in an indecent relationship, and I liked this point of view, but I always felt that there were some points that were difficult to explain. And she lied to the police that her mother committed suicide on the balcony instead of shooting herself. She originally thought she said this to help her father (because father has a gun, the main line of the story), but later re-watched and found that the order was reversed, when the girl lied Didn't know about that gun yet, I rolled my eyes now. What about the suggestion that the girl wants to commit suicide by jumping off the building on the balcony? I think it is possible, but judging from the tone of the movie, it seems to be a bit too romantic. The mystery of my mother's suicide, being so bold and open about sex, yet being as simple as a child when it comes to emotional communication, and the ambiguous eye contact with my father (why didn't I think there was fatherly love in those eyes?), it always made me I feel that the relationship between a girl and her father is not so simple. The repeated sexual exposure of Japanese girls can be understood as the girl's adolescent restlessness, but I always think it's too much. Even if a girl of this age feels lonely, she shouldn't be so bold, right?
The rest is to talk about the good and evil of human nature, a bright future, etc. There are too many people who wrote it, and I always feel that some parts can be copied and pasted in the "Crash" film review, so I decided to stop talking about it.
In fact, I am very obsessed with watching movies full of mysteries, but the mystery of "Babel" makes me feel a little irritable and feel like it is a mystery. I don't know why, but I personally prefer the director's "21 Grams" to this movie. The same tone, "Crash" is clean, in addition to being moved or moved, "Babel Tower" has mixed flavors, in one sentence, I really can't tell what it feels like.
Just write so far.
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