Thursday, May 14, 2020

The Movie Babel - 862 Words

In the movie Babel there was four different stories that was all connected by a single shot gun. A Japanese girl’s father had sold a rifle to a Moroccan man, the man had then gave the rifle to his two sons. The younger boy was a better shooter than the older boy. The older boy became jealous because he was the big brother and he was ‘supposed’ to be the better shooter. The little brother shot at a tourist bus to prove that he was the better shooter, and in the mist of proving himself he shot a woman that was on the bus. The woman that was shot happen to be an American woman that was vacationing with her husband in Morocco. While the American couple was on vacation they had their Mexican nanny watch their two kids. The Japanese girl was deaf, so her way of communicating wasn’t the ‘common’ way. In order for her to communicate with other she had to use sign language or she need a person to speak extremely slowly, so that she could read their lips. Among her peers she was seen as an outcast, a monster, someone that didn’t fit in with the ‘in crowd’. She was struggling with the rejection of her peers and the distant relationship she had with her father, on top of it all she was missing her mom (which had recently passed). She often went out with friends and tried to experience common things such as going to clubs and listening to music. She was learning how to deal and cope with her way of life and communicating. The brothers had little secrets that they were keeping from theirShow MoreRelatedBabel Movie Analysis891 Words   |  4 PagesA movie highlighting societies’ issues, personal to political, that one faces from lack of knowing how to cross-communication throughout a variety of cultures. The film Babel, written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro Gonzà ¡lez Ià ±Ãƒ ¡rritu, depicts the failures of communication and the realistic effects that it has within certain cultures. 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