Sociological Perspectives in Babel
Babel, a hyperlink cinema masterpiece, is a 2006 film by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and tells the story of four families through four different perspectives. Though these families appear to be unrelated through business or other social arrangement, it is a single object, a .270 Winchester M70 rifle, which unites their stories. Through this object, and the families presented, an analytical approach may be taken to explore the different sociological perspectives presented in the film.
The story is presented in a series of related events that take place in various parts of the world including Mexico, Morocco, and Japan. As it is revealed at the end of the film, it is the rifle given to a Moroccan hunting guide that links the four families through a series of tragic events. While on a hunting trip, Yasujiro Wataya of Japan gave the rifle to his guide, who in turn sold it to Abdullah and his family. While Abdullah has intended to use the rifle to protect his goats from predators such as jackals, he leaves the rifle with his sons, Yussef and Ahmed, while he goes into town to buy more supplies for his farm. Yussef and Ahmed do not realize the rifle's power, and to a degree doubt it. Since their father, Abdullah must go to town to fetch supplies, the brothers are left in charge of the goats on the farm and must take them out to graze, rifle in hand for protection. Though the rifle is intended to kill jackals that may attack their herd, Yussef and Ahmed decide to test the rifle's power as it has been purported that the rifle can shoot a target up to three kilometers away. As Yussef is a bad shot, his younger Ahmed takes...
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