Tuesday, February 06, 2007

 

Babel


Tower of Babel
According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a unite humanity to reach the heavens. God, observing the unity of humanity in the construction, resolves to destroy the tower and confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts.

The story is found in Genesis 11:1-9 as follows:

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel (confusion); because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Babel (2006)

In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out--detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief. In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost--lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves--as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love.

HG2G
The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, that can instantly translate any language to any other language. It is described thus:

“ The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. ”


We all try to communicate in our own ways.
And maybe my wanting to be a director has nothing to do with my interests.
It's just my desire to communicate my feelings.
So is the function of this blog.

I enjoyed the film a lot.
But since you can't understand what I feel, the next best alternative is to watch the film yourself.

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Comments:
babel is great issnt it! i love it too. but quite irritate by the other audience.. cant understand them.. grrr...
 
haha
what did the audience do?

talk loudly?
snore?
scream "this is a stupid film"?
 
but do you know where Babel is?
I've been there in my childhood a long time ago
Babel is the arabic name for Babylon

do you know about the hanging gardens of Babylon? more interesting story
less of the vengeful god of Isralites and Genesis
I loved the section of the film set in Tokyo
that would have made a good film I think
T
 
check out more info at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel
 
oops
sorry mister G you already used that source..
 
keke
still
thanx for sharing..

tell me more about babylon soon :p
 
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