The document discusses Roland Barthes' five codes for analyzing texts: the cultural code, symbolic code, semantic code, hermeneutic code, and proairetic code. It then analyzes a clip from the film "Hotel Babylon" using these codes. The cultural code is seen through two maid characters that turn out to be strippers. The symbolic code is found in the tension between French and British chefs representing racial tensions. Clothing is used as a semantic code to represent class differences. Unanswered questions about characters represent hermeneutic codes. Building tension between arguing chefs shows the proairetic code.