the whole earth was of one language Words are the same. When they moved eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. They consulted with each other and said, Come, let us make bricks and burn them through. They used bricks for stones, and lacquer for plaster. They said, Come, let us build a city, and a tower, with its top reaching into the sky, that we may proclaim our name, lest we be scattered throughout the earth. The LORD came to see the cities and towers that the world had built. Behold, says the LORD, they are one people, all speaking the same; and now that they have done this, there is nothing that they will do afterward that they will not do. We go down there and confuse their accents and make their speech incomprehensible to each other. So the LORD scattered them over the whole earth from there. And they stopped working and didn't build the city. The name of the city was Babel, because the LORD confounded the words of all the people there, and scattered all the people over the whole earth.
This seems to be the source of the communication barriers between people in the movie, so everyone can't help but blame God. However, when I watched the film carefully, I found that what the film really wanted to say was: language is not the real barrier, the real barrier is human nature itself! ——Humans commit sins voluntarily, do not believe in the goodness of others, escape their sins instead of repenting, and rely on themselves instead of God. These four are the real sources of communication barriers. No wonder the director said, "There may be a huge gap in what makes a Japanese person and a Moroccan person happy, but what makes each of us miserable is the same." The problem is human nature.
At the end of the film, Keiko is arranged to stand naked on the balcony, which seems to imply the expectation of mankind to return to the pure Eden (Adam and Eve originally wore no clothes), relying on God's expectation; in the end, the helicopter carried the wounded through the night sky and swept away. Passing the church is even more profound: helicopters are the means for human beings to save themselves in their own way, but they move forward in the dark, and the church behind them is bright! It seems to give mankind a hope. For more than 2,000 years, God's salvation for us has actually been there, and we voluntarily fell into that darkness.
Someone said: "Tower of Babel" explores what binds us together, not the theme of our separation. I feel that human beings have been repeating the same crimes for thousands of years. The corruption of human spirit, morality, and values has reached an inexhaustible level. Therefore, it is not important to connect or separate now. What matters is "where are we going?" ! Are we continuing to walk our human path? Or choose God's way?
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