Babel (2006)

“Babel”, a word derived from the bible which means the terrible consequences of unchecked ambition. Thus, it illustrates a confusion of noises, voices and miscommunication. It tells four distinct stories about four families taking place in Morocco, Japan, and United States/Mexico. It is about an American tourist couple's frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. However, in the later part of the story you will discover that each of the characters and incident are connected to the other.

In our world, usually we expect about how each culture wreaks hatred and violence on another, but actually we never thought of about how each culture tries to behave well, and is handicapped by misperceptions. In “Babel”, it shows when there are strangers in a strange land, surely they can bring trouble upon their selves and their hosts. People today are cut off from each other by race, language, culture, and tradition.

According to the Director of the film, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel is mainly a story about human beings and not about Moroccans, Mexicans, or Americans.  He thinks as human beings, what makes us happy is very different; it depends on cultures or races. What makes us sad and miserable is exactly what we share, and that thing is basically the impossibility of love.