Babel, a movie with four different plots, four different languages and three different families, but connected by one thing. This movie takes places in Morocco, North America, Mexico and Tokyo. The first storyline is about a young married couple, Richard and Susan, who went to Morocco on vacation and left their two kids behind in hoping to get their marriage back. Amelia who has a family in Mexico is babysitting the two kids of Richard and Susan. Another storyline is about two brothers who live in Morocco, and the last story is about a young deaf Japanese girl, named Chieko. You're probably curious as to how these four storylines could even be remotely connected. A single rifle connects these four plots. A rifle that Chieko's father gave when he visited the poor country. A rifle that was handed to a Moroccan guide named Hassan only because the Japanese tourist wanted to be generous. When the rifle was handed to the Moroccan family things got out of hand. The young boys were playing around and unintentionally kept shooting at a bus that was coming their way, not knowing that the bullet would even travel that far, when they shoot they hit Susan, the mother of the two kids who are being babysat by Amelia in the United States using the gun that was giving to the Morrocans by Yasujiro the Japanese man. All of these plots are connected by one item, an item that truly stands out - a rifle. .
In my eyes I see this story to be a healing movie, despite the dramatic scenes that stand out like the nudity and the sexual content and the language and drug usage. One perfect example of healing and forgiveness is when Richard and Susan where in the home of a Moroccan waiting for help. Richard was holding Susan and letting her know how sorry he was, and how the loss of their child should not have driven him away. He was trying to fix and heal their relationship even though it was broken. Richard felt like leaving the family because their kid passed away was wrong of him, and she was trying to cope with it as well.
