The movie shows how the actions of one person on one continent can affect the lives of other people on different continents and vice versa. It shows how travel, news, telecommunication, and other symptoms of the globalization maximize the magnitude of actions across the globe and how people, who would usually have no contact with each other are connected not only by actions but also by things (the rifle). Also, Babel portrays through its narration the simultaneous developments of incidents across borders, countries and space, in general. Characters are also linked through time, something that can be perceived only now, thanks to the rapid communication that is developing in a globalized world.