Film Analysis: Babel

Because God created the Tower of Babel, humans can not communicate, so they can be divided into many different societies. Everyone's culture, language, ethnicity and so on are all different. Furthermore, in every society, everyone has different gender, physical and mental abilities. However, despite the differences between males, people often insist that human experience is universal. In Babel, the movie depicts the essence of humanity by showing the lives of people who are very different from each other in a connected story.

The Tower of Babel is another building of Ancient Mesopotamia. The Tower of Babel was built to reach heaven. Babel wants to be equal to their God, and they want to be together. Babels said: "Let us build the city ourselves and let the tower spread to the sky so that we can name ourselves instead of being scattered in front of the whole planet Do it. " It was built to reach heaven and to bring people together. Under Nimrod's rebellious leadership, the citizen built a tower of Babel. They built a tower of Babel with brick and mortar made of asphalt. The Babylans really want to be equal with their own God.

Perhaps you are familiar with the myth of Babel (for clarity, this is not my religious belief, but to provide analogy): Human beings took the Babel Tower to achieve God's purpose We aim to construct. As an arrogance punishment, various languages ​​were made, interchange between countries became almost impossible, and finally, construction was canceled. Please consider the time and effort that customer support spends repeating the same information or the same answer. Another use example: How many times did you order the same drink with Starbucks? Or, "When is your date of birth?" It is necessary to answer. These repetitive interactions are meaningless, but they happen everyday.

Babel's story is a good example of how literary analysis supports subject analysis. New literary criticism, unlike classical source critique, focuses on the development of the structure and plot of the story. Fokkelmann (1975) examined the literary form of the Babel case in detail. He shows that it has an interlaced symmetrical structure defined by repeated words and phrases. One such structure contains a series of parallel actions (Table 4). This is the result of the structure: humans try to rise and fall with God. The words of this article emphasize how God's behavior reacts to human efforts. God has solutions to everything humans are about to do. This God's reaction seems to be a feature of the Lord's epic. It represents the preparation of God in response to human sins in both negative (curse) and positive (blessing)