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Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle… but the bullet goes farther tha...( read more 
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MCT:November 18, 2008The movie contains many allegoric things.In the part of the Japanese girl,showing us sometime we may cannot find our ways,but do not lose yourself and oneday,you will have your own way.In the story of the American couple,telling us the marrige is not easy,and aslo it is costful.So,never say goodbye easily.
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MCT:November 12, 2008
Have you ever watched a movie that managed to be powerful, well directed and acted, and possessed of a profound social message, while at the same time being very unengaging? Babel is such a movie. It sort of lays the groundwork for provocative emotional moments that I recognized were good, while at the same time I was not really engaged emotionally. It's like I intellectually knew this was a good movie, but emotionally it didn't do it for me. So all in all Babel was a quality film, but the experience was sadly not what it could have been.
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MCT:November 11, 2008
Babel tells the story of a group of individuals spanning three continents who are linked by the tragic accidental shooting of an American tourist. The obvious comparison for me to make with this film is the infamous Oscar winning Crash which shares many themes. Both films are based on cultural differences and prejudices and their impact on the lives of those involved. Both feature an anti-gun message. Both stories are structured around a series of rather unlikely coincidences. The only real difference between the two are that this film has more in the way of arthouse credibility. Because both films are also well acted, nicely directed, interesting stories. Yes, that's right. STORIES. Anyone who derides Crash as a piece of crap while at the same time holding Babel up as a work of art is talking purely out of cinematic snobbery. AKA their arse.
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MCT:November 8, 2008
I think that I expected too much when I watched Babel, as I kept searching for more than what was there. The performances were solid and the cinematography was impressive. The editing was lousy though.
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MCT:November 7, 2008"Ba?bel
? ?/?be?b?l, ?bæb?l/[bey-buhl, bab-uhl]
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1. an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4?9.
2. (usually lowercase) a confused mixture of sounds or voices.
3. (usually lowercase) a scene of noise and confusion."Strong and intriguing cinema-therapy
As one of the insane and connecting dramas in Hollywood . BABEL made a strong impression , deceptive and beautiful .
4 different story with okay opening , made an exciting dramatic journey til the end of the stories , all emotion spilled perfectly , with 4 different type of setting and cinematography .
Strong . The characteristic of each character , from Brad Pitt to Rinko Kikuchi.
Personally , my favorite story is The Japanese one , it's strong and captivating . I like the Japanese setting , the drama of a deaf mute person and Rinko Kikuchi's strong impression(nasty role . But , she fitted it perfectly) ,suddenly made her another Asian A-list , along with Koji Yakusho .
But , Alejandro González Iñárritu made a really great directing in 'the Morocco story' ,with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett there , supporting this story to be as strong and attractive .
at the end,BABEL maybe not a fancy movie . But , as a drama , it was a true moving , emotional and impressive movie .
"I'm deaf, not blind!"
Chieko
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MCT:November 7, 2008
ho hum. bit melodramatic with an overstarred cast, bit like 'crash' like that - but quite powerful if not totally coherent
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MCT:November 6, 2008
Great movie. Starts off slow but gets better as you watch. I think everyone should see this one at least once. It's very long but really worth watching.
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MCT:October 20, 2008
a very well acted film, but just not somethin i would normally watch... brad pitt was very good as always...
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MCT:October 16, 2008
Babel may just be one of the best movies ever made. It is definitely one of the best I have seen. Let me start by saying that it took a genius to create this masterpiece of a film. This is the most complex, carefully thought out, masterfully written movie of its time. It is an extraordinary piece of art that goes way beyond anything I have witnessed to date. The film is emotional and intense while remaining raw and realistic. Simply put...phenomenal and mind-blowing. The film takes a realistic look into the lives of perfect strangers around the world, all connected in some form of fashion. It is quite confusing if you move away from the screen for one moment, so wait until you have 2 ½ hours to dedicate. It could be easily misunderstood, but if you pay close attention, you will get the point of the film and the message it is trying to portray. It is all about the tremendous affect that one person's mistake can have on another person's life. Babel takes the most real-life situations of humanity, and the painful reality of the world we live in today, and projects them onto the big screen. The film shows the stories of four different families around the world who are all connected by one bad choice. All of the families are from different cultures, different classes, and all speaking different languages. The cultures are diversified, and well examined throughout the movie. The shared pain and sorrow of all involved is reveal through out the film and allows the audience to relate on so many levels with it's characters. It is a story about the different races, religions, politics, and sexual outlook of today's societies in different cultures of the world. The movie wants you to feel what each character is feeling, while feeling sorry for the situations that they are all stuck in. As we follow the tragic downfall of desperate human beings in desperate situations, and watch them cling to what little hope they have left, you ultimately realize what a heartbreaking film this really is. The actor's performances are incredible to say the least. This movie brings together great actors, both well-known and unheard of, who work beautifully together to produce a remarkable outcome. Brad Pitt and Rinko Kikuchi were among my favorites of the many talented actors in this movie. Brad Pitt gives possibly the most moving performance to date. As far as the directing goes...WOW! Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, who also directed another favorite of mine, Amores Perros, giftedly directed Babel. The use of light, color, surroundings, and sound assist the audience in really understanding the characters and their experiences. He draws you into the movie with the fascinating jump from place to place, situation to situation, and person to person. What an experience this movie is. Like I said before, the movie has four different languages, including sign language. It is indeed hard to follow at times, but is worth the effort. Don't let the different languages and cultures prevent you from watching this movie and missing out on an experience that you will probably never forget. This movie is easily on my top 10 list, and a definite buy.
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MCT:October 16, 2008Just what we need: Another humorless film to tell us that life is a bitch. Yes, we're all victims. The victimized human race. And there is no compensation, no transcendence. We just have to hold on, to each other, to something, to anything, until we die. Because it's inevitable. And the sooner the better because life treats us all so badly. Suicide actually works as an effective quick exit. In this movie. Really. No guts? Struggle through with the help of alcohol and drugs. Great. Oh, hey, and while were at it, let's opportunistically victimize people. How about this? Let's make the U.S. Border Patrol and the Moroccan police look like villains. Yeah, that's an uplifitng idea.
What a horror story. The most unfeelingly, even nasty at times, anti-humanistic film I've seen in a while.
03/07/07 update: So, flixsters, I just came home from my weekly movie discussion group therapy session. Surprisingly, many of my group were somewhat stunned by my less than sterling summation of this movie. I tried to defend my position as well as I might, but I fear I may have been in error when I took this apparent masterpiece to task.
I now stand informed. Mea culpa. I've decided that I am really really wrong about Babel. Driving home, I must add, I actually flashed upon the ultimate addition to this brilliant script. And here it is. Please tell me what you think.
The only slight adjustment that would have furthered the grand interconnectedness of all of us would have been to have Yakusho's wife kill herself with the exact same rifle. Well, even better, she kills herself with the rifle, and then Yakusho decides, as a tribute to her memory, to take the accursed gun on one more, one final hunt. So the tribute hunt -- to his dead wife -- is the hunt where he is so impressed with his guide that he gives him the rifle, thus sparking the unraveling of this whole beautiful story of interconnectedness.
So what do you think? Pretty sweet, huh? But why didn't the film's brain trust come up with this themselves? I am puzzled. Okay, so although I once said I'd never give a half star to any movie, I'm giving in and reluctantly dropping Babel from one star to a wholly undeserved half star. Why? Well certainly not because it's that bad -- nothing is that bad is it? Of course not. It's not like Yakusho lopped off his wife's head and mounted it on the condo wall. That would be like something really stupid, like The Hills Have Eyes , perhaps. No. I'm giving Babel half a star simply because I came up with this idea when the script gurus did not. I am an idiot; they aren't. Minus one half star for me. You must see Babel. It's certainly no The Hills Have Eyes. I actually can almost guarantee you that if you look up "sucks" in the dictionary, you probably won't see a picture of Babel. Well, life holds no guarantees.
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MCT:October 12, 2008
Seeing this film for a second time really made me realize how great this film really is! The multi-cultural aspect of the film is really what makes it so great. Another great Gael Garcia Bernal film too!
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MCT:October 11, 2008Such a great one . i like the parrelels that Iñárritu mades in his movie. although as a prejudice fan of CATE BLANCHETT i cant judge her, but all acting were amazing...
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MCT:October 6, 2008
Alejandro González Iñárritu's style and theme never gets old. Different characters, age, backgrounds, cultures, and stories that happened in the same time, all very moving stories(which made me cried). One of the most memorable scenes for me is when Kikuchi's character was walking through the crowd in a club, the silence and the flashing lights were so effective. Somehow, Alejandro González Iñárritu finds another way to connect all of them to show the misery of communication, how difficult it is to reach a mutual understanding between races, cultures, generations, and politics, even though technology has developed so much.
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MCT:October 5, 2008
Very good. I like such movies.
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MCT:October 3, 2008
Besides the vestigial fourth story (japan) tacked on because odd numbers are bad apparently, this is a good movie, but I think it could have been edited down by about 15 or 20 minutes. I liked it however, especially because it exemplies my creed: Never leave this country. Ever. For no reason whatsoever.
Two out of the four families in this movie don't share my creed. If they were real life people and not make believe, I bet they would now. -
MCT:September 29, 2008
One of the virtues of great movies is that they help us understand people different from us, or comprehend in some ways situations which might otherwise seem incomprehensible. Babel takes this notion a step further, begging our understanding of a cast of characters who are all in their own way trying to do right, our insight into where their prejudices and certainties do more damage then harm, and that understands that sometimes acceptance without understanding is the best course of action; there is, after all, always so much we still don't know.
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MCT:September 29, 2008
Very intense, brilliantly filmed movie, but for all its gloom, drama and suspense, it's rather pointless and the way the stories tie together is really disappointing. I was expecting a bigger, more original twist. Cate Blanchett is great as usual, and Brad Pitt gives what I deem to be his best performance ever.
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MCT:September 28, 2008
Drugs, alcohol, violence, darkness and various languages... oh.. wait that was the living room. Oh.. and the movie was good. confusing sometimes.. especially the suicides.. i should watch it again i guess...
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MCT:September 20, 2008
culturally relevant..tackles tough issues and accurately portrays America's influence overseas.
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MCT:September 15, 2008
A simple shot that influences everyone around the world...
This is a film with full package for Academy Award consideration, you will feel it after the show.
Come on, the film editing, the original score, the performance from everyone, the cinematography, the screenplay and the ambitious director... very well done!
The way they join the segments into a film slowly and howthey edit the movie, awesome you know.
Adriana Barraza deserves her Oscar nod for gaining 35 pounds and insisted on walking on desert for two days flming. Look at how she cries for the lost kids...
Rinko Kikuchi was like a real deaf mute. I think this part alone and her full frontal nudity scenes made the Academy difficult to choose who should win the Oscar of the nominees from the same film.
Brad Pitt's emotion deserves his Golden Globe nod and Cate Blanchett was professional as she always does.
The ending scene was so memorable in such a way that I will never forget in my life, it's too deep and captivating!
After watching this film, now I hope to watch the director's classic 21 Grams and Amores Perros.
I seriously think this film deserve Best Picture Oscar more than what a remake of Infernal Affairs, The Departed.
Listed as Roger Ebert's Great Movie, Congrats!
Won Oscar for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score; Nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing
:Alejandro González Iñárritu, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Adriana Barraza & Rinko Kikuchi; Best Writing, Original Screenplay and Best Achievement in Editing.
Won Cannes Best Director, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Technical Grand Prize and nominated for Golden Palm. -
MCT:September 14, 2008
sucked shit! whats is the story in this movie??!!!
jus make whole bunch of people look bad, like the arabs and the chinese! -
MCT:September 13, 2008
Inaritu uses the same old formula once more.Surprise!Not really,impression doesn't last forever and pearls will fade soon.Interesting storyline but it's so naive to cover your elements with subconscious desires,guilt,madness,for all these characters' personalities clash their personal fears.Yes,worldwide community.It still won't change the fact there's obvious resemblance to his previous works and if you have a writer's block Arriaga,don't cram us with immigration and anti-terrorist messages when other films are much concrete..
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MCT:September 11, 2008
In this film you see some incredible story telling. The blending of these people's lives in different place that are somehow influenced by each other. Really makes you realize what a small world we live in and the consequences of our actions.
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MCT:September 7, 2008
I didnt find it as philosophically charged as many people told me it was, including my philosophy teacher. But it was philosophically relevant all the same and it was an enjoyable watch. Could have been better and the links between the events and characters seperate but yet linked experiances could have been better explained. I would have prefered it if the links ended up being circular rather than liniar, but it made its point and for that it diserves praise, and in todays world where we have managed to conquer the restraints of distance deviding people and cultures its a very valied and relivant point aswell.
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pavacri23posted 268 days ago -
This Movie Was Good But It's True It Didn't Need That Third Story The One About The Japanese People It Doesn't Fit In The Movie.
You, my friend, need to look deeper into the meaning of the movie than just the surface plot. The movie's themes about being all alone and helpless connect Rinko Kikuchi's character to the rest of the film.
Also there are four stories
Japanese
Mexico/American border
Brad Pitt/Cate Blanchette
The two arab boys.posted 401 days ago -
This Movie Was Good But It's True It Didn't Need That Third Story The One About The Japanese People It Doesn't Fit In The Movie.
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Ohmigosh this film is awesome. My best friend took me to it for my birthday and I didn't expect it to be so great coz of the subtitles, but I loved it! Anyone who says it's rubbish has no taste.
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All right, I liked this movie well enough, but the guy that says it's better than 21 Grams is completely out of his fucking mind.
It's better than 21 Grams, but both are still great films.
Babel is the last in the Iñarritu/Arriaga trilogy, and it's the only film that gets the fundamental emotions and message perfect. Babel is far better than 21 Grams.posted 527 days ago -
All right, I liked this movie well enough, but the guy that says it's better than 21 Grams is completely out of his fucking mind.
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WHAT?! This movie was lame. As far as a plot goes anyway. 4 stories brought together by lack of a common language? I must've missed it. I can't believe this film was nominated for anything. I had to mute the movie a few times because that 'sound' was grating. I was expecting much more.
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It appears as a documentary more than an ordinary movie.
Very political.Reflected parts of social & political lives of today at different countries at 3 different continents.
Very interesting.posted 577 days ago -
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this movie sucked i fell asleep in the first hr of it. It's that boring. I don't know how this got nominated for awards.
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