DotTheEyes
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With Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of Amores Perros and 21 Grams, delivers the year's most ambitious and provocative film. Using an international ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Gael Garcia Bernal, the visionary director explores how a single shot from a rifle affects a diverse group of people around the globe, drawing them together and tearing them apart, and delivers a message involving the need for the world's citizens to come together despite idealogical differences.
It's stunning how Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga construct such an enormous plot with geopolitical overtones without sacrificing the fleeting moments of flavor which give the myriad characters, including estranged American couple Richard and Susan (Pitt and Blanchett), who're still reeling from the loss of a child to S.I.D.S., rich depth. And each and every actor is terrific, with the obvious standouts being Pitt, who displays more range than ever before as a man facing the probable death of his wife due to bizarre circumstances, and newcomer Rinko Kikuchi, who is brave and nuanced as a deaf-mute Japanese teenager so starved for attention she exploits her own body to draw in male strangers.
Babel is without a doubt one of the year's best films and I expect it to be a major player at the next Academy Awards ceremony. It's a stunning film with an important and moving message. Recommended.
With Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of Amores Perros and 21 Grams, delivers the year's most ambitious and provocative film. Using an international ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Gael Garcia Bernal, the visionary director explores how a single shot from a rifle affects a diverse group of people around the globe, drawing them together and tearing them apart, and delivers a message involving the need for the world's citizens to come together despite idealogical differences.
It's stunning how Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga construct such an enormous plot with geopolitical overtones without sacrificing the fleeting moments of flavor which give the myriad characters, including estranged American couple Richard and Susan (Pitt and Blanchett), who're still reeling from the loss of a child to S.I.D.S., rich depth. And each and every actor is terrific, with the obvious standouts being Pitt, who displays more range than ever before as a man facing the probable death of his wife due to bizarre circumstances, and newcomer Rinko Kikuchi, who is brave and nuanced as a deaf-mute Japanese teenager so starved for attention she exploits her own body to draw in male strangers.
Babel is without a doubt one of the year's best films and I expect it to be a major player at the next Academy Awards ceremony. It's a stunning film with an important and moving message. Recommended.
Not to mention the ending really sucked. :thumbsdown: