Babel

Monday 29 March 2010

Plot Synopsis:

As in his previous two films, Inarritu weaves in and out of several stories, all loosely linked on some profound level. An American couple struggle to survive a shooting in Morocco; the young shooters panic; a nanny illegally takes two children on a trip to Mexico; a deaf Japanese girl, in Tokyo, rebels against her father. All are striving to cross the barriers that thwart communication between contrasting "types" of people, wherever they live.
While it mostly avoids sentimentality, it'd be a cold viewer who didn't come out of the film feeling more compassion towards strangers than he took in. It's a tough theme to pull off, this personal/universal, we're-all-hurting-in-any-language motif.


Babel is a city in Shinar where the building of a tower is held in Genesis to have been halted by the confusion of tongues