Review of Babel (2006) by Adrian B — 27 May 2012
In Morocco, two children obtain their father's gun and begin to shoot objects with it. They decide to head over to an arid hillside, in which there is aim is a bus on a lonely, steep stretch of highway, with little belief they can successfully hit it.
They do, severely wounding an American passenger (Cate Blanchett), in which her husband (Brad Pitt) must find a way to get them to a hospital in very remote part of the nation. The two boys end up on the run from the authorities.
In the U.S.A., the American couple's kids are being cared for a nanny (Adrianna Brazza) who ends up bringing them across the border into Mexico for her son's wedding. Their trip eventually goes awry while coming back into America.
Finally, in Japan, a deaf mute (Rinko Kikuchi) strives to get a man. Oddly, her father's gun was the one used in Morocco shooting. Sort of like "Crash" released the year before, only much better, this strange story is about victims of circumstance, not of intended crimes.
As well, it examines how small a world people live, of which four different countries connect in two or three story lines. Pretty interesting from start to finish, with generally god performances. One notable flaw is incompleteness with Mexican storyline, in which we, as viewers, don't know what happens to the nephew (Gael Garcia Bernal), and I don't think that was intended.
As well, that storyline also ends kind of overly and unfairly sour for the nanny.
This review of Babel (2006) was written by Adrian B on 27 May 2012.
Babel has generally received positive reviews.
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