Babel

Director , Alejandro G. Iaarritu directs the film Babel. This film weaves together stories about taking place in Morroco, Mexico, Japan, and the Unites States and focuses on an interrelated set of situtations and character that take place out of sequence. The first situation takes place in a remote dessert location in Morroco when Abdullah, a goat herder buys a high powered rifle and a bx of ammunition to ward of the menaces that have being praying on his sheep. He hands the rifle over to his two teenage sons thus leading to a tragic mishap when one of the boys fires the rifle at a bus carrying western tourist. The bullet hits Susan Jones, who is played by Cate Blanchett, and American woman from Los Angelos who is traveling with her husband Richard Jones, who is played by Brad Pitt. The plot elevates when the media catches wind of the situtation and the US government holds the shooting to be an terrorist attack.
Simultaneously, the movie tells the story of Chieko Wataya a rebellious, deaf Japanese teenage girl, traumatized by the recent suicide of her mother and a sense that she is an outcast from society because of her handicap. She is bitter towards her father and boys her age, and is sexually frustrated. In response, she starts exhibiting sexually provocative behavior and attempts unsuccessfully to initiate a sexual encounter with her dentist. Chieko eventually encounters two police detectives who question her about her father. She finds one of the detectives attractive. She invites him back to the apartment she shares with her father. Wrongly supposing that the detectives are investigating her father's involvement in her mother's suicide, she explains to him that her father was asleep when her mother jumped off the balcony and that she witnessed this herself. It turns out the detectives are, in fact, investigating a hunting trip Yasujiro took in Morocco. Yasujiro is an avid hunter and during a trip in Morocco he gave his rifle, as a gift, to his hunting guide, Hassan, who at the beginning of the film sold the rifle to Abdullah.
This is a powerful film that combines stories of fate, hope, and tragedy and how human relationships are viewed in a mixed society.