Babies Documentary Analysis
Israt Ara Motaleb
According to the documentary “Babies,” there were many scenes in the film that most clearly demonstrated the interconnectedness, the similarity in all human behavior. For instance, when the babies from the urban and rural areas, even though they grew up in different environments and are from different backgrounds, they showed the same capabilities in all human behavior. An example is when all babies look around their surroundings and makes different sounds hiccuping, snoring, crying, laughing and smiling in their sleep, playing or when their mother is talking to them. We see the mutual attachment that the infants have with their mothers. In Namibia, the baby Ponijao was snoring, making sounds in his sleep and then we see how …show more content…
In this rural place, we see how the baby eats and touches whatever it finds on the ground with dirt and plays in the water for fun. However, in Mongolia, the infant Bayar, we see how the baby cries because of the sound of the machine, while the mother is cutting the other son’s hair. The mother starts humming to the baby for him to sleep. Since the place is a rural place, we see how the baby goes around and touches the animals and just stares at them, such as the rooster while he was laying in bed and the goat, when he was taking a bath. This shows that the babies look around their surroundings to understand their environment which influences their behavior. In Japan, the infant Mari also plays with toys and listens to the sound, when her father was talking on the phone he was shaking the toy back and forth in order for her to be silent. In addition, Mari cries when she sees the animals in the zoo, especially the gorilla, where her mother takes her to see the animals. Also, she smiles and laughs when she plays with the chair, paper, and takes out the CD’s. In San Francisco, the infant Hattie looks in the mirror, smiling and laughing, the mother reads books to her and the baby makes sounds as she reads and stares. She smiles in her sleep and looks around when her mother
According to the documentary “Babies,” there were many scenes in the film that most clearly demonstrated the interconnectedness, the similarity in all human behavior. For instance, when the babies from the urban and rural areas, even though they grew up in different environments and are from different backgrounds, they showed the same capabilities in all human behavior. An example is when all babies look around their surroundings and makes different sounds hiccuping, snoring, crying, laughing and smiling in their sleep, playing or when their mother is talking to them. We see the mutual attachment that the infants have with their mothers. In Namibia, the baby Ponijao was snoring, making sounds in his sleep and then we see how …show more content…
In this rural place, we see how the baby eats and touches whatever it finds on the ground with dirt and plays in the water for fun. However, in Mongolia, the infant Bayar, we see how the baby cries because of the sound of the machine, while the mother is cutting the other son’s hair. The mother starts humming to the baby for him to sleep. Since the place is a rural place, we see how the baby goes around and touches the animals and just stares at them, such as the rooster while he was laying in bed and the goat, when he was taking a bath. This shows that the babies look around their surroundings to understand their environment which influences their behavior. In Japan, the infant Mari also plays with toys and listens to the sound, when her father was talking on the phone he was shaking the toy back and forth in order for her to be silent. In addition, Mari cries when she sees the animals in the zoo, especially the gorilla, where her mother takes her to see the animals. Also, she smiles and laughs when she plays with the chair, paper, and takes out the CD’s. In San Francisco, the infant Hattie looks in the mirror, smiling and laughing, the mother reads books to her and the baby makes sounds as she reads and stares. She smiles in her sleep and looks around when her mother