The movie Babel is revolves around four cultures and families that are, in one way or another, linked to each other. The movie takes place in Japan, Morocco, America, and Mexico. In each setting the culture is exhibited in great detail and many stereotypes of each are proven to be false. In Babel, Yasujiro Wataya, father of Chieko Wataya, had given Hassan his rifle in thanks for being his guide. Hassan later markets off the rifle to Abdullah, father of Yussef and Ahmed. Yussef later takes aim at a bus and ends up shooting Susan Jones, who is on a tour of Morocco with her husband, Richard Jones. The significance of the title of the movie Babel refers to the Tower of Babel in the Bible, the place where God decided to change everyone's language. The people were trying to build a tower going to heavy. God mixed up the language to stop construction. Since then babel tends to mean everyone is talking, no one is listening, understanding is naught and nothing is being done to stop the problem. In the movie Babel, miscommunication is one of the sole factors that
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Chieko can message and communicate words with any person around the world, but cannot completely express herself or reach any individual satisfaction while living her stressful adolescent life Tokyo. Like when she was at the night club, she couldn’t enjoy it. There were scenes of sections of the nightclub scene with and without sound to show what it was like for Chieko. When the sound went out for the viewers, it looked like the people were just jumping around aimlessly, looking ridiculous. But with the sound on again, it seemed completely normal. Another form of Chieko’s miscommunication happens when she attempts to sexually interact with certain men. To them, she comes off as though she were trying to ‘get somewhere’ with them, when in reality all she is doing is looking for some form of
Chieko can message and communicate words with any person around the world, but cannot completely express herself or reach any individual satisfaction while living her stressful adolescent life Tokyo. Like when she was at the night club, she couldn’t enjoy it. There were scenes of sections of the nightclub scene with and without sound to show what it was like for Chieko. When the sound went out for the viewers, it looked like the people were just jumping around aimlessly, looking ridiculous. But with the sound on again, it seemed completely normal. Another form of Chieko’s miscommunication happens when she attempts to sexually interact with certain men. To them, she comes off as though she were trying to ‘get somewhere’ with them, when in reality all she is doing is looking for some form of