Everybody Loves: Babies Documentary Analysis

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When a baby is born and enters the world, people feel emotions such as joy and excitement as they welcome a new member to their family. In Everybody Loves… Babies, viewers gain a glimpse of how families from four different countries raise their new baby. Throughout the documentary, it is easy to see the differences amongst the environments, cultural traditions, and societal norms. However, there are also similarities as well, and it serves as a reminder that no matter how “different” family may look on the outside, there are commonalities at the core of it all too. The countries and children the audience members follow throughout the documentary are Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia; Bayar from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia; Mari from Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie from San Francisco, United States (Chabat & Balmès, 2010). Viewers embark on the journey of human development for about the first year of the babies’ lives. Each culture and family had their own method about how to best raise their child that …show more content…

This is shown in the movie through the montage of them crawling and being inquisitive about their environment (Chabat & Balmès, 2010). Throughout the montage, the babies crawl with an Effort Time of Quickness. This represents how crawling is their comfortable mode of transportation, and they feel excited to have the independence to do it on their own. Ponijao crawls in a river with other kids and explores her surroundings (Chabat & Balmès, 2010). Bayar is often by himself throughout the film and crawls around and gets into some sticky situations such as on a bucket with cows surrounding him. In Japan, Mari is often transported via stroller, but she still is able to crawl and explore her environment as well as Hattie. In addition, for Hattie and Mari, their parents attend movement and song classes with them to introduce them to movement and songs for

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