![]() All of the characters in this film are carriers of cultural microbes.Ĭonsider the plight of Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid), the Moroccan boy. Before our latest Mars probe blasted off, it was scrubbed to avoid carrying Earth microbes to the other planet. “Babel” could have been a routine recital of man’s inhumanity to man, but Inarritu, the writer-director, has something deeper and kinder to say: When we are strangers in a strange land, we can bring trouble upon ourselves and our hosts. The movie is not, as we might expect, about how each culture wreaks hatred and violence on another, but about how each culture tries to behave well, and is handicapped by misperceptions. Yes, but there is so much more to “Babel” than the through-line of the plot. Police enquiries about the Japanese businessman’s rifle lead to consequences for his disturbed daughter. ![]() The tourist’s Mexican nanny, in San Diego, is told to stay with their two children, but doesn’t want to miss her son’s wedding, and takes the children along with her to Mexico. The friend’s son shoots toward a tourist bus at a great distance. The guide sells the rifle to a friend, who needs it to kill the jackals attacking his sheep. A Japanese businessman goes on a hunting trip in Morocco, and tips his guide with a rifle. ![]() Without revealing too much, let me chronologically piece together the stories.
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