看了个DVD叫Babel，中文译名“通天塔”，不明白意指什么。查了字典，Babel实在的意思是“乱哄哄”，这倒跟影片情节蛮配的。有大明星Brad Pitt和Cate Blanchett助阵，本来以为是一部大娱乐片；出乎意料，竟然算不上。影片很奇怪地把三个看似无关的人和事编排在一起，一个在日本、一个在非洲，还有一个发生在美国墨西哥边境。我倒是看得滋滋有味，仅仅因为很好奇这三个故事之间究竟有什么关系，尤其是日本那段，很古怪。结果，看到最后也没有明白。翻看封套上的中文说明，更是不着边际（打击盗版DVD！）。不经意瞥了一眼英文，登时茅塞顿开。仔细再回想一下，觉得是个挺有意思的电影。有点像Crash，不过比Crash难懂。

 

Seperated 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.

 

 

注：“巴别塔”的原意就是指人类为了见到上帝，准备建造一座通天塔，上帝为了阻止人类，让他们语言变的不同。于是，人类开始有了文化差异，从而导致了冲突……