Culture in the movie Babies

Are literary works a valuable and reliable source in examining other cultures?

     The movie Babies is a great example of how literary works teach audiences about culture.  Some literary works are created for the purpose of teaching about culture such as documentaries or non-fiction writing.  However, other books and movies can provide a lot of information about different cultures without that being the sole purpose of the novel or movie.  Babies is a good example of this, the purpose of this film is to show us how babies live in different places around the world and allows us to look at cute babies, because who doesn't love babies? Even though this movie's focus is on babies we learn so much about culture through their lives.  When we watch the movie babies from around the world it allows us to see how they live, their codes and customs, religions, food, ethnicity, and geography which are all factors of a culture. This is why I think literary works are a very valuable and reliable source of examining other cultures.