BABEL
With
Brad
Pitt,
Cate
Blanchett,
Mohamed
Akhzam,
Gael
García
Bernal,
Adriana
Barraza,
Elle
Fanning,
Nathan
Gamble,
Clifton
Collins
Jr.,
Michael
Peña,
Mustapha
Amhita,
Jamie
McBride,
Harriet
Walter,
Peter
Wight,
Sanae
Miura,
Satoshi
Nikaido,
Kazunori
Tozawa,
Shinji
Suzuki
Directed
by Alejandro
González
Iñárritu
One
cannot
help
but
find
parallels
between
Babel
and
Robert
Altman’s
brilliant
Short
Cuts
(and
the
more
recent
award
winning
Crash).
Several
stories
around
the
globe
from
the
US and
Mexico
to the
Middle
East
and
Japan
intersect
when
an American
tourist
is shot.
This
technique
was
also
used
highly
effectively
by the
director
in his
2000
film
Amores
Perros
(Love’s
A Bitch).
Saying
too
much
about
Babel
would
be spoiling
a great
deal
of what
makes
the
movie
so intriguing,
although
its
intent
is not
a big
secretive
punch
line,
but
the
individual
lives
depicted
in crisis.
With
so many
cultures
and
languages
on the
planet,
a seemingly
unaffected
action
or event
at one
end
of the
globe
can
have
tremendous
repercussions.
Iñárritu
wrestles
maximum
passion
from
the
actors
and
situations
to create
a stunning
chunk
of social
commentary,
showing
us yet
again
that
people
are
people
and
fragile
at that,
and
we are
all
part
of the
whole.
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