Friday, January 5, 2007

Babel

Ba·bel   
1.    an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
2.    (usually lowercase) a confused mixture of sounds or voices.
3.    (usually lowercase) a scene of noise and confusion.

It was a treat watching this movie, three separate tales in three distinct locations on the globe. US-Mexico border, Morocco and Japan. Beautifully narrated, fitting all the pieces of jigsaw puzzle.
what I took away from movie
human emotions are not bound by any culture, All of us share the same streaks and display them unwittingly when pressed to a corner. Be it the teenage boys in Morocco, a deaf-mute girl in Japan, an illegal immigrant in US, an American couple caught in Morocco, all of them are susceptible, all of them feel the same pain, all of them feel trapped helpless for no apparent fault of theirs.
In fact at close quarters the body language of all humanity is same, we all fidget the same way, we all cry the same tears, we all crave for attention, we all want to be loved and we all rise above our fears and define human spirit.
In short all of us are a shade of grey

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~asto' ma sat gamaya

1 comment:

Samiran Ghosh said...

Heard About it before, but never saw it. Seriously, we all are so same! Obviously other than having 2 legs, 2 hands, a face and a head. Tune it up, the heart tunes quite in a same way. Well written.
Samiran