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Babel

Not a new movie but a movie which I wanted to watch long time ago. The title itself has already hinted you it could be multi-language. Indeed it is. It tells a story of few people around the world who are somehow linked to each other. That's another way of telling six degree separation theory.

To cut story short: a tourist was unintentionally hurt by two brothers who got the riffle from their father who intentionally bought it from a friend whose rifle was originally given by a Japanese hunter cum tourist as a gift. As a consequence, the tourist and her husband couldn't make at home on time. Their kids had to follow their nanny to Mexico and unfortunate events happened. OK, each people mentioned has his/her story and struggle, and as one incident happens, it leads to consequence, sort of cause and effect.

The big question, why the rifle was given away? Why the Japanese went hunting? The movie doesn't give the answer...
You shouldn't jump to conclusion hastily just like the US government declared the shooting incident as terrorist attack. In fact, it was just an accident which was due to an act of proving who's right or wrong; an act of immaturality.

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