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Watched this film with a good deal of anticipation and I have to say that by and large I found it disappointing. It was too contrived for me and OK it was interesting observing how a single event could link so many lives across the globe, but as an entertaining film no. I was longing fo rthe end to be honest.
A bus navigates a dusty mountain road - inside a woman half asleep suddenly realises she has been shot. This is the story of how this single event impacts on the lives of a group of people in Mexico, Japan and Morocco. Its a simple idea, beautifully simple in fact and the story unfolds with great style. There is some outstanding acting and the Mexican nanny (played by Adriana Barraza) should have won an oscar. The two Morrocan boys are so natural, and the deaf girl in Japan gives a brilliant and complex performance. I loved it - I hated it. It is a bleek film, and yet amazingly deep and rich, and tragic. There is hope, but don't watch this expecting it to have the sort of ending where everyone one lives happily ever after... like life its slightly more complicted than that.
Babel’s connecting plot-tissue is a gunshot fired by two Moroccan kids from their family goat farm. The shot reverberates globally, its impactees being a holidaying American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), a deaf-mute Japanese girl (an Oscar-nominated Rinko Kikuchi) and a Mexican nanny (Adriana Barraza, another Oscar nominee). Rich thematic juice? Maybe. Ever-diminishing ripple effects? Maybe that, too. It didnt hit its UK OR US targets and was disapointing for me
Excellent film well worth the money ....................................................................
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