MULTI NARRATIVES - BABEL

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
According to its plot:Babel focuses on four interrelated sets of situations and characters, and many events are revealed out of sequence. The following plot summary has been simplified and thus does not reflect the exact sequence of the events on screen.Interestingly, the three settings for the plot are located on approximately the same latitude with each approximately 120° apart in longitude.The story started in a remote area location in Morocco. Abdullah, a goat herder, buys a rifle from his neighbor Hassan Ibrahim. He bought the rifle for the purpose of shooting the jackals that have been preying on his goats. Abdullah has two young sons and gives them the rifle. The sons, Yussef and Ahmed were send out to tend the herd. In the film both established a degree of competitiveness between whose the better son. There was a shooting competition between them. Ahmed attempted to hit a rock and a moving car, but unfortunately failed. Yussef on the other hand, hits the bus containing Western tourist. He thought it didn't hit anyone but it did.


The bullet hit Susan Jones, who has with her husband Richard Jones. They were on a vacation in Morocco to get away from things and trying to save their marital woes. Susan was bleeding and fatal. They were taken to a nearest village to get some help. The response for help takes time and the only thing they can depend on was the Moroccans who lived near. Other Americans from the bus tries to leave them because they think that they are not safe in the place for Moroccans are stereotyped as terrorists. But eventually the bus leaves without them. In the film, it showed how the Moroccan tourist guide aids them without leaving them on air. 

 Meanwhile, Susan and Richard has 2 children in America. The children were left by their Mexican Nanny Amelia. Amelia has to attend her son's wedding but unable to secure any other help to care with the children. She asked Richard but advice her to cancel the wedding. Amelia badly wants to attend the wedding and decided to take with her the children without the permission of the parents. She brought them in Mexico with her nephew Santiago who drove them there. Amelia decided to go back to U.S in the evening. Unfortunately, a commotion happened between an officer with her nephew on a checkpoint. The border guards become suspicious behavior for he has been drinking heavily and bringing the American children in the car. He tries to escape leaving Amelia and the children in a dark deserted area. The sun has showed up,but Santiago can't be seen from nowhere. Amelia hopelessly finding for help leave the children in the deserted place trying to secure some help. She was found by an officer but gets deported.
On the other part of the globe. In Japan, tells a story of Chieko Wataya a rebellious deaf-mute Japanese teenage girl. She is angry with his father Yasujiro Wataya. She was hopeless and felt no one else is with her when her mother died who committed suicide. As a rebellious daughter, she goes out with her friends who has the same illness. She was also portrayed as sexually frustrated trying to find someone who can fulfill her needs. There was two police who has been looking for her father. She thought it was because of her mother's death but eventually not. She desired for the younger looking police and tries to seduce him by inviting her over their condo to get some interview but ends up naked. But the police didn't abused Chieko but instead sympathize here and gives her a warm hug letting her know there will always a hope. The officer leaves her naked and her father saw her in the balcony still naked.
All of these happenings were interrelated to each other. In a short span of time they were connected. It was all because of the rifle who was originally owned by Chieko's father who is Yasujiro. He is an avid hunter and during a trip in Morocco he gave his rifle, as a gift, to his very skilled hunting guide, Hassan, who at the beginning of the film sold the rifle to Abdullah. He ask his to sons to watch his goats. The son had a shooting competition and hit a bus and the bullet straightly got into Susan. While Susan is nearly on death Richard didn't stop asking for help to the American Embassy. At the same time it was also the wedding of Amelia's son. She has to take with her the children for she was unable to find someone to take care of them. She lost the children in a deserted place. She was arrested with unjust and got deported. In Japan, the police were looking for Yasujiro because they found out that the gun used in shooting is enlisted with under his name. They try to clarify it. 
So the chasing for answers was all about the existence of the rifle.
Babel was a little bit confusing in arranging the events in its actual scene. It shows that if you miss a glance to the scenes you will be confused onto the next scenes to what was happening already. Its one tactic of a multi narrative film to get the full attention of the viewers into the movie. The unleashing and revealing of events will show the interest of the viewers to continue watching the movie and attentively watching what will be the next scene. The movie was set at the same time but in different worlds. It shows that in one single thing we can be all connected to each other. Indeed, this is a small world full of mysteries.