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film: Babel, The Movie
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MynameisnotDeja
Bluelight Crew
This same theater has had partially completed movies before.
I wont be going back.
I guess Ill have to wait for it on DVD, because its not playing anywhere else around here.
I still reaLLy enjoyed this movie, despite not fully knowing what was going on.
I wont be going back.
I guess Ill have to wait for it on DVD, because its not playing anywhere else around here.
I still reaLLy enjoyed this movie, despite not fully knowing what was going on.
wow... wait... so the movie does have subtitles? I watched this this past weekend and there were no subs... i thought that was the entire point of the movie?
I still enjoyed it without subs and felt that by watching body language and the like, it was pretty easy to figure out what was going on.
I still enjoyed it without subs and felt that by watching body language and the like, it was pretty easy to figure out what was going on.
hazydavy84
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If you liked Babel, you should check out Amores Perros. Same writer and director and somewhat similar types of films. I liked Amores Perros better, but that may be because I saw it a few years ago.
Benefit
Bluelighter
A mediocre film that tries way too hard and comes up short.
21 grams was much better; it was tighter and more focused and the scope of the film was anchored by more realistic ambitions. Alejandro González Iñárritu may be a talented filmmaker, but a Kubrick he is not. Babel reaches for a kind of sublime emotional intensity and lyrical beauty that it just doesn't have. It wants to be a slow-moving, gorgeously painted epic (in terms of pacing and visual style think Barry Lyndon for instance) but it just sort of putters along in uneven bursts.
To be sure, there are some flashes of excellence. The scene in the nightclub, the two boyish goat-herders, Garcia Bernal's acting and the Mexican hat dance party (just to name a few), but these are balanced against the almost moronic silliness of other scenes. When did passionately kissing your severely wounded wife while she urinates into a pan become a deeply touching experience? And the Mexican getaway into the desert was so ridiculously stupid I cannot even fathom how it got inserted into the movie.
It's worth a look for its exploration of human communication (or lack thereof), but I wouldn't consider it a very insightful film. The depiction of breaking through (or not breaking through as the case may be) cultural barriers and the overarching, transcendent interconnectivity of the human species is kind of interesting, but also predictable and somewhat stale. Beware; it offers up some really sophomoric political commentary and the character development is spotty.
The pacing is pretty bad too. It seems to move slow out of some sense of epic obligation, and the emotional climax at the end of the film just didn't move me at all. Perhaps I have no heart but the Japanese story arc didn't interest me much at all. Sure, the alienation of a deaf and sexually frustrated teenager might be somewhat compelling, but it seemed very culturally inauthentic. I'm not an expert, but I don't think real Japanese people (as opposed to actors) would act that way. I know that's probably the point ("Hey, we're all the same on the inside!") but in reality the Japanese deal with mentally ill teenagers a lot differently then the Western world. Surprise, in the real world we're not all the same!
Plus, Chieko looked a lot like one of the really ugly angels from the work warning gallery. Yikes.
To summarize: some good location shots, a mildly interesting meditation on social interaction, some stellar scenes, some moronic scenes, a decent score, and some questionable cultural authenticity. All of this builds to an overly ambitious and mediocre film that is worth a look but is not Best Picture material.
21 grams was much better; it was tighter and more focused and the scope of the film was anchored by more realistic ambitions. Alejandro González Iñárritu may be a talented filmmaker, but a Kubrick he is not. Babel reaches for a kind of sublime emotional intensity and lyrical beauty that it just doesn't have. It wants to be a slow-moving, gorgeously painted epic (in terms of pacing and visual style think Barry Lyndon for instance) but it just sort of putters along in uneven bursts.
To be sure, there are some flashes of excellence. The scene in the nightclub, the two boyish goat-herders, Garcia Bernal's acting and the Mexican hat dance party (just to name a few), but these are balanced against the almost moronic silliness of other scenes. When did passionately kissing your severely wounded wife while she urinates into a pan become a deeply touching experience? And the Mexican getaway into the desert was so ridiculously stupid I cannot even fathom how it got inserted into the movie.
It's worth a look for its exploration of human communication (or lack thereof), but I wouldn't consider it a very insightful film. The depiction of breaking through (or not breaking through as the case may be) cultural barriers and the overarching, transcendent interconnectivity of the human species is kind of interesting, but also predictable and somewhat stale. Beware; it offers up some really sophomoric political commentary and the character development is spotty.
The pacing is pretty bad too. It seems to move slow out of some sense of epic obligation, and the emotional climax at the end of the film just didn't move me at all. Perhaps I have no heart but the Japanese story arc didn't interest me much at all. Sure, the alienation of a deaf and sexually frustrated teenager might be somewhat compelling, but it seemed very culturally inauthentic. I'm not an expert, but I don't think real Japanese people (as opposed to actors) would act that way. I know that's probably the point ("Hey, we're all the same on the inside!") but in reality the Japanese deal with mentally ill teenagers a lot differently then the Western world. Surprise, in the real world we're not all the same!
Plus, Chieko looked a lot like one of the really ugly angels from the work warning gallery. Yikes.
To summarize: some good location shots, a mildly interesting meditation on social interaction, some stellar scenes, some moronic scenes, a decent score, and some questionable cultural authenticity. All of this builds to an overly ambitious and mediocre film that is worth a look but is not Best Picture material.