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Never Watch Babel

Babel is one movie that anyone with as much patience as a woman in labour should never watch. In fact, you shouldnt even try to see the posters, or get tempted by the “beautiful cinematography”, and other such comments that friends might make to entice you to watch.

I unfortunately did.

I found the story line naive, the fractured sadness of every cast member including the poor Winchester Rifle unbearable, and the mere presence of Brad Pitt intolerable. Sigh…if only there was a flickr set of the images in the movie, my 2 hours and extra minutes would have been better spent looking at them rather than watching the movie.

I am still reeling from the effects of this movie. I have warned you.

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I found the story and concept quite good although not spectacularly portrayed but the casts’ performance and yes cinematography is nothing short of brilliant. As to what Manish said, its not so much the contrast of societies but the contrast of linguistics; ok maybe sociolinguistics. That what the story of babel is all about really.

zul
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ah… now come on! It was not that bad.

Babel does need patience, though its more because its shows a correlation between seemingly unconnected stories. It dares to go beyond the natural perception of movies, where the hero is all super, and can make cars fly; so on and so forth. This story hits on the ground reality of life for various people living in different cultures, countries in their own normal ordinary way. There is no other movie which has more beautifully presented the contrast between American, Mexican, Mid east and Japanese societies.

Or maybe you were looking for an enjoyable story involving different tongues and countries? Well, its not that :-).

Manish Rai Jain
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