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[signing] They look at us like we're monsters.

Chieko, Babel

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I killed the American, I was the only one who shot at you. They did nothing... nothing. Kill me, but save my brother, he did nothing... nothing. Save my brother... he did nothing.

Yussef, Babel

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I think we're just gonna have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie

Margot, The Royal Tenenbaums

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Eli: I'm not in love with you any more. Margot: I didn't know you ever were. Eli: Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is. Margot: OK. Eli: OK, what? Margot: OK, I'm not in love with you either. Eli: Yes, I know, you're in love with Richie. Which is sick and gross.

The Royal Tenenbaums

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— Babel has demonstrated multiple narrative and story arcs, multiplicity are nothing new to most audiences and it was interesting to see that the writers of the movie have been able succeed with the use of multiplicity, multiple protagonist and narratives, while maintaining some of the character and action emphasis which prevent this from being too ‘different’. The movie has been effective in interconnecting the plotlines with an overarching plot which connects them all together. In the process, it has also explored thematic unity, which compares or contrast the conflicts of each individual characters and their separate plotlines.

— Time in a film is but a significant one. Aside from it being the basis and recognition of the film’s plot time (when it happened), it is also one of the factors that affects the events causes and effects. In Babel, time has something to do with the movie’s plot and story. Take the scene of Santiago having encountered the checkpoint upon taking Amelia and the kids home for an instance. First, the scene took place on a late night which would automatically resonate to the event. And who would ever forget what happened in Morocco. The scene where the American couple encountered fear and isolation. It was clearly portrayed in the film that it took place on one sunny afternoon in Morocco which causes some of the nitizens in the bus to demand that they would take the bus home because some of them were already suffering from heat stroke, due to of course the time they were in that particular area plus it was a desert. Amelia on the other hand have been wandering around the desert looking for help within five days.

[last lines in the film that can be associated with time]

"Japanese newscaster: Susan Jones, who was wounded in a terrorist attack in Morocco, was discharged from a Casablanca hospital this morning, local time. The American people finally have a happy ending, after five days of frantic phone calls and hand wringing. In other news..."

— Viewers seeks to connect events through causal motivation. In the movie Babel, causal motivation was presented in the film through its characters and the plot as well. The plot being drawn in the film has led the viewers to infer causes and effects.. how the involvement of an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear, and displacement, each character discovers that it is family that ultimately provides solace. 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. Its multi narration has withhold and unfold causes then depicting effects afterwards, prompting the viewer’s suspense, uncertainty, and arousal of curiousity leaving them glued to their seats.

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       The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed byWes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. The film stars Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson and Danny Glover.

It follows the lives of three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentric father leaves them in their adolescent years. An ironic and absurdist sense of humor pervades the film.

(c) Wikipedia

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           The representation of ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY was portrayed in the movie through the depiction of issues of family, issues that are deeply personal, emotional and serious.. telling us that one can act stupidly, cruelly, and ineffectually in the world but there’s the possibility to take responsibility for one’s actions and being held accountable for other people’s malaise and how they have led their lives rooting to one’s acuteness of feeling for other people’s emotional estate.

The Royal Tenenbaums vividly depicted the idea of a family geniuses, each member being exceptional and adept at a particular skill. And how this idea of a family geniuses has soon turned into a bittersweet twist leading to the films revelations on how irresponsible Royal Tenenbaum has been to his family leaving him accountable to the issues he generally started.

Chas once started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. Richie was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault.

Royal’s lack of care to take responsibility and act as a father has led his children to be the way they have been the moment he neglected them. Feeling of being abandoned by their own father has led Chas, Margot, and Richie, to become the person they’ve become. A child’s love is a very powerful thing. Parents have the accountability and responsibility to deal with it carefully.. and it turns out that Royal wasn’t careful and responsible enough.

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CHARACTERIZATION

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman)

     - failure as a father; complicated, insensitive, and selfish; neglected his family and left his wife, Etheline -- but soon realizes that there’s something he can’t get anywhere else that his family provides for him; tried to amend the heartaches he created to everyone he has alienated.

Etheline Tenenbaum ( Angelica Huston)

     - an archeologist; very loving toward her children; Royal is her necessary heartbreak; protects the rest of the family from Royal, but soon realizes that there is a need in the household for a father.

Henry Sherman (Danny Glover)

     - the family’s respectable accountant; wears blue blazer and bow tie; Etheline’s suitor; sincere and charming; kind of meek and bumbling; dependable; offers comfort and stability; not a man into self-promotion; --everything Royal is not.

Chas Tenenbaum (Ben Stiller)

     - Eldest son; Math and business genius; angst-ridden and uptight; traumatized of his wife’s recent death; overprotective to his two sons (Ari & Uzi); wears red Adidas track suit and the identical, miniature versions of his sons’ wear.

Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow)

     -an adopted, eternally disaffected middle daughter; a playwright; precocious and secretive; isolated herself from everyone in her world; felt unwanted and completely on the outside.

Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson)

     - shattered youngest Tenenbaum; tennis prodigy and artist; Royal’s favorite; has romantic longing for his adopted sister, Margot; wears tennis shirt and headband

Eli Cash (Owen Wilson)

     - Richies’s bestfriend; grew up in the city and writes novels; has drug problem; wants to be a part of the Tenenbaum family; had an affair with Margot; wears cowboy hat

Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray)

     - an eminent neurologist and writer; married to Margot; known for extreme secrecy and suffering from writer’s block.

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        The Royal Tenenbaums is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter. It is one of those movies I consider life changing. It teaches us a lesson that even though everyone goes through hell with their family, still-- as corny as it sounds-- family members are still the ones who will understand what you're going through. It gives us the realization that family is so crucial and important to children, giving them sense of identity and perspective. What started out to be more about geniuses, ended up being more about failure, for family life was so awful that it left each of the children as they grew older particularly ill-suited to deal with any of the problems that most of the people are able to handle. It is often one's family that can do the most damage to people, but also the most important and best place to return to heal.. and the Tenenbaums' sudden family reunion simply shows us that failure in life can either destroy or can give one the oppurtunity to reconnect. The characters have these terrific accomplishments and a kind of supreme confidence in themselves and what is interesting to me is how they deal with the fact that it's all behind them, that they must find their self-esteem elsewhere, and that led them back to their family, where everything began. This movie here, don't balk at showing some of the rough stuff families endure, but it shows in the end that it's worth it. After all, good families always keep trying. Things aren't always going to work out smoothly, but the best families keep going no matter what somebody does to you. The families that fall apart are the ones that don't care enough.

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My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film’s case ‘run on’ — manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol