babel japanese girl?

Question

can anybody tell me what you think the japanese girl wrote in the note she gave to the officer? the movie was great but the way it ended was annoying coz i couldn't tell what exactly was the problem with the japanese girl and his father. i am clueless. i guess this was the director's intention to keep people guessing but honestly its stupid to do that.

Answer 1

Rinko Kikuchi is great...I like the parts where she shows her muff

Answer 2

I haven't finished seeing the movie (my brother bought it on DVD today and we were watching it on his computer when it suddenly crashed... and he hasn't yet restarted it. Don't ask me why, I don't really know.), but I think it's not specifically about each character... it's about problems with communication; how a lack of communication or a difficulty communicating affects people. Thus, the deaf Japanese girl, and the communication boundaries between Brad Pitt's character when his (wife?) gets shot. That's why the movie is called Babel, because it's about the differences in language that we have that separate us.

However, I don't know what was in the letter... partly because I haven't seen the movie, and was also on the phone for a brief period of time.
If it was the first time she meets him (don't think so?), then she might have mentioned that she liked him, as she told her friend later. If later, she may have confessed that she liked him, or something.

Hopefully my brother'll restart the movie soon. >.<
(He's taking apart his paintball gun and putting silicon oil in it. OCD/angry at his computer much?)

Answer 3

She probably wrote "Thank you" or "I Love You" in Japanese. Who knows?

I think that the Japanese girl, named Chieko in the movie, was suffering from the loss of her mother. Her father was also in mental anguish from the loss as well.

Furthermore, Chieko had very low self-esteem because of her disability. That made it difficult for her to effectively handle the roller coaster ride that is puberty.

I also believe that Chieko, like many young people growing up in the modern age, was subconsciously feeling a sense of despair because of all the pain, violence, and conflict in the world.

To me, Chieko felt profoundly detached from the world and the people around her. She desperately needed to feel connected with someone, somehow.

Answer 4

I think the girl shot her mother. That was what was in the note, and the reason she craves everyones attention. The father gave away the rifle because he wanted to get rid of the memory.

Answer 5

This movie was really confusing for me. When I got out from the movie theater, I didn't know what to think about this movie! Was it the documentary about Morocco shepherds and peasants, or about Tokyo teenagers or about illegal border crossing of the Mexicans....or just a movie!!!!! Hell, don't know!!!!!! And what's the point at the end? Maybe I didn't figure out what the director wanted to tell us with his movie, but I just didn't get it. It was a luck 'cause I had enough of peanuts, pop corns and soda during the movie...he!
And what she wrote? She probably wrote him to get drunk.

Answer 6

I think she is. It's very difficult to fake muted speech and to know sign language. It's much easier to hire an actress who is deaf to play the part. There are quite a few deaf actors and actresses.