Film Analysis: Babel

Since God creates the tower of Babel, human race is separated into many distinct societies due to the inabilities to communicate. Each differs from one another by its own culture, language, ethnicity, etc. Moreover, in all societies, each individual has difference sex, physical and psychological abilities, etc. Nevertheless, regardless of all the differences among men, it is often claimed that human experience is universal. In Babel, a movie portrays the nature of humankind by illustrating the life of people who are very distinct from each other within interconnected storylines. This film demonstrates the evidences of all human experience life in a fundamentally similar way such as the tendency to give up everything for their loved ones, sexual lust and regret.

Human beings are extremely attached to the ones they love and are tend to sacrifice the interest of others and their own to fulfill the interest of their loved ones. In the case of the American couple, Richard, the husband, insists that the whole tourist group wait in the bus without air-conditioner until the rescue come to save his wife, who is in danger after being shot, although one of the elder tourists faints due to the heat. Human beings can become extremely self-centered when they are concerned about their loved ones, as Richard yells at his guide and the embassy who are trying to help him. One might says that only American would act this way. However, in the movie, Amalia, the Mexican nanny brings the two kids of Richard and his wife without their permission with her in order to attend her son's wedding. Although she does care about the kids and knows clearly that such an action is illegal and she is risking the safety of two kids, she still cho...

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...lessly in the dessert with two kids; when Youssef watches his brother being shot right in front of him; and when Cheiko writes a letter to the officer who repelled her sexual seduction. Almost all the people who watches this movie can understand the feeling of regret from the body language played by the protagonists when they are hit by the cruel consequences, because men knows and has encountered this emotion in their experience.

In conclusion, the movie Babel provides a rich sources of examples to demonstrate that all humans experience life in a fundamentally similar way. All men have experienced the urge to sacrifice anything to protect their beloved ones; the desire of sexual activity; and feeling of regret. Even though human beings can have major differences in terms of social status, social back ground etc, our life experience is universal after all.