Course of Clinical Philosophical Pedagogy, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Abstract
特集I : 京都大学大学院教育学研究科 ユニバーシティ・カレッジ・ロンドン教育研究所 国際合同授業 （2022年2月5日-7日, オンライン）“Thinking about Education through Film”, International Collaborative Course, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University and UCL IOE (February 5-7, 2022, Online)In this paper I suggest the possibility of an analogy between the experience of grief and that of communication based on the common element of surrender. I propose an interpretation of the film Babel, by Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, according to which the film provides four examples of how surrender and reciprocal trust is crucial to survival. I focus on the sense of disconnectedness that affects some of Iñárritu's characters and explore how they are able to resolve it through the encounter with others. In the end, I reflect on the paradoxes that are at the heart of the film and how they are a feature of human life itself, what makes people feel closer beyond the borders of language and nationalities
