BABEL: Tower of Babel (Hebrew Bābhel, from Assyro-Babylonian bāb-ili,”gate of God”), according to the Old Testament (see Genesis 11:1-9), tower erected on the plain of Shinar in Babylonia by descendants of Noah. The builders intended the tower to reach to heaven; their presumption, however, angered Yahweh, who interrupted construction by causing among them a previously unknown confusion of languages. He then scattered these people, speaking different languages, over the face of the earth.
The story possibly was inspired by the fall of the famous temple-tower of Etemenanki, later restored by King Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia. The Genesis account appears to play on the Babylonian word bāb-ili (“gate of God”) and on the Hebrew words Bābhel (“Babylon”) and bālāl (“to confuse”). The English words babel and babble are derived from the story....
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...but that was a whole lot different story from the movie that I've seen this Monday, starred by Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and a pack of other cast, this is a story of how things are related to each other, how one event may have effect on other event, I think that's the morale of the story, no matter what you do, it will have effect on others, nevertheless it's good or bad...
I was expecting to see a "heavy" movie, but I was surprised that it didn't deliver the tension that I was looking for... I can say that this was like Pulp Fiction, only on a serious matters, not comical... 4 stories in one movie, 2 in Morocco, 1 in Japan, 1 in Mexico and each one of them are interrelated...
(***1/2) 3.5 stars, good but not that good...
PS: can anyone explain why this movie was titled Babel?
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According to the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. God, observing the unity of humanity in the construction, resolves to destroy the tower and confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts.
The major theme of the film was how, due to cultural assumptions, people of different types are still unable to communicate to each other despite living in a modern world. The movie attempted to make each culture as human as possible by including culturally-transendent behaviors that all audiences could understand and relate to. Underneath the many different cultures and disabilities, these people are all simply doing what all humans do- a man worrying over his wife, a nanny taking care of children, young boys trying to better each other, teenagers trying to catch the attention of the opposite sex, etc. However, cultural assumptions and suspicions held against them prevent such an understanding, revealing the struggles with communication due to stereotyping that we still have today.
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whhheeee, no tension? I like the flow of story, it's brilliant, make us think but we dont think that we think. Try to watch "crash", u'll find the same flow of the story.
i know about the term "Babel" when i translated Map of Bones by James Rollins. but now i kinda forget, hahaha. i got the dvd but as usually don't get time to watch it. nice blog btw ;)
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