Research Paper On Babel

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The movie Babel was released on October 27, 2006 in New York City. The director of the movie is Alejandro González Iñárritu, he is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. Babel was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director in the 2007 Academy Awards, and they got the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score. The movie tells a story about an accident that connects four different groups of people. It takes place on three different continents, Japan, America and Africa. A Moroccan family, a vacationing American couple in Morocco played by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, a mute Japanese teenager and her father, and the Mexican nanny who is in charge of the kids of the American couple. These stories are linked to each other in varying ways, but are also still four independent stories, which makes it a very interesting movie. Consequently, the movie Babel shows the viewer that without communication it is almost impossible to trust people from other cultures and not fall back on prejudices. The title of the movie is Babel, Iñárritu did not choose this by accident, and he likely named his movie after the bible story about the tower of Babel. The story is written in the Old Testament in the book of Genesis. It is an interesting legend, in which the Lord came down to make people aware of what different languages would do to the society they lived in. The purpose of the story “was to account for the two great phenomena of human society – the distinction of