Chieko Watay Movie Analysis

It not so much only the fact that within the story people cannot communicate with each other because of the different language they speak, but it becomes clear how much effect prejudices have on people. Juan Pellicer calls this “a Babelian syndrome: broken communication, misunderstandings, isolation both on the global level as well as in the intimate realm of relations between children and parents, particularly with the consequences of separation and deafness” (Pellicer 240). People are so used to connect through language that they are not able to really connect with each other in other ways. One storyline is that of the Japanese mute girl Chieko Wataya, what is really apparent in this storyline is that it is hard to communicate let alone the fact that someone cannot communicate at all through language. She feels misunderstood and very alone. She tries to get attention from men, but over and over again she gets disappointed because when the men find out that she is a mute they turn away and do not want to get to know her. For Chieko this is really hard to grasp because she only wants to be loved, in the movie it becomes clear that Chieko does not know what to do, or how to express herself. Her father does not want to pay close attention to her and

By watching this movie, people are confronted with their own prejudices and ideas about other cultures. Using the title Babel for the movie Iñárritu explains what he wanted for the movie. People led by prejudices and unable to communicate with each other as a result of their language barrier. He succeeds in showing the viewer that without communication people will likely not trust others and therefore “in the end Babel, like the tower in the book of Genesis, is a grand wreck, an incomplete monument to its own limitless ambition” (qtd. in Pellicer