Babel

Babel

Different cultures, different languages, 4 groups of people experience difficulties of what it is like with the current age of societies. The first setting takes place in Morocco where a couple who are tourists gets victimized by 2 boys who were believed to be terrorists who shot a rifle by accident. The wife gets shot in the bus and a language barrier for her to get the necessary help. Their kids, who are left in the US being taken care of by a Hispanic housekeeper who brings the 2 kids along with her to her own child's wedding. They celebrate in happiness at the wedding in Mexico, they travel back to the US and gets stopped at the border crossing. The vehicle gets searched and then the officers asks for the note from the parents of the 2 American kids. The driver, drunk, panicking, and scared, speeds off into the US with his mother who was being very helpful with the border patrol and the two kids. The Hispanic mother and the two American kids gets dropped off in the desert by her son and left alone. When daylight came, she seeks help and gets arrested for being an illegal Alien. Another setting is an Asian teen who is deaf and being mistreated by her father. She tries to get a boyfriend, but fails. So she tries desperate to find a lover and gets herself in trouble along with her father. Her father is the man who gave the rifle to the man in Morocco and that was given to the kids who used it to shoot the wife of the tourist. It was assumed that the rifle was in the black market when apparently not. It is a movie based on a lot of miscommunication and drawn assumptions. Innocent people getting hurt and being torn apart in a world of where language and culture is the barrier. At the end of the film, everything gets explained the right way and it makes the viewer feel like this is what happens in the real world of lost confusion.

It is a very nice movie with drama, some action, and can teach society of what happens when culture clashes in confusion.

143 min runtime, available on DVD, rated R. I give this movie a thumbs up with a 4/4 star rating

Check it out at your local video rental store or library to rent it out, or you can get this movie at paramount home entertainment.

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