Babel- Society Disconnected

Outside of media representation and deep down, all people are the same. Kindred relationships in Babel serve as the unveiling to this fact. The title is an allusion to the definition of the word - a confusion of noises or voices - as well as the biblical reference to a time when all the people of earth spoke a common language and lived in one place. According to the Bible, at this point man overreached himself with his intention to build a tower that reached to heaven. This show of ambition angered God and so He confound the language of all the earth causing those involved to scatter, forever confused and disconnected. This is a movie that highlights this suggestion of society's ongoing malaise of confusion and disconnection. It is a modern-day parable that subtly demonstrates how even when we speak the same language we often do not understand one another, although we are all essentially similar. Environment shapes makes and shapes people; this is why what each person holds dear could differ as much as if each person lived on a different planet. People should all know that face value is pretty cheap. It is always worth spending that extra bit of time to learn about someone and in turn understanding them and our world better.

The director tells multiple stories from different vantage points that all inevitably link together in the most subtle ways in terms of the similar themes that saturate through them. All of the stories within the film-at their core- are about families and how parents relate, for better or for worse to their children. All are potent and emotionally charged for their own reasons, but the film works like a symphony in how it is all put together. All of the families come from different levels of wealth and ethnic backgrounds, but the universality of their dilemmas seems constant. All of these family connections are cohesive and are all equally important, they link each storyline together as well as serve as fuel to develop the characters. No...