Babel: A movie about ocmmunication and the need to be understood

An emotionally visceral and emphatic triumph, Tragedy is so overwhelming in Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu's "Babel" that my anxiety increased throught out the viewing. Let me expain what Babel is. Babel was a tower that humans watned to build in the "old testament". They all had a common language and were cooperating fine. Their aim was to reach the Heavens and God, whoever he was. But the "God" got angry and crushed the tower and their advances; to make sure humans would never unite again and become too overconfident he gave each one of them different languages.

WHy is the movie called babel? It is a movie with people who cannot be understood or cannot communicate with others under difficult situations. The main part of the movie was the shooting of an american tourist in Morocco. This incident sets in motion events in the US and Japan. Strange right? basically the movie is about 3 stories, with communication as the underlying theme. How can you make yourself be understood.....

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Co-star Koji Yakusho

Yet we continue watching, a great credit to Iñárritu’s direction, as she struggles for this connection, and we can even sense, in ourselves, Iñárritu’s point: communication is not always as easy to negotiate as it seems. Unfortunately, Iñárritu strays from his formula with one of these narratives, as if to escape his usually plaintive and somber ways.

For Iñárritu fans, this will be met with great dismay. For the sake of not spoiling the film, I’ll hold back further comments. Nonetheless, it’s clear to see that Iñárritu, acknowledging Babel as the third and final leg of his cinematic triptych, wants things to conclude in a brighter light than his previous two efforts. I think this is cowardly and mawkishly idealistic, and I think, worst of all, this panders to the upbeat-ending demands of Hollywood (Babel is the largest financed Iñárritu film). I will just say that no Americans were harmed during the movie, only people form morroco and mexico.

After the movie I was so emotionally charged that i couldn't sleep. This movie is not for the weak-hearted. And let me finish this review with a nice trailer.

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