Babel is a fairly new movie with a talented ensemble cast but for some reason it was forgotten. I don’t understand why, to me it is done very well, and something that a movie fan should revisit regularly. The movie was directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu who also directed 21 grams. Building upon its predecessors’ method of weaving together tragic storylines, Babel reaches new heights of ambition with a story that relies on numerous incredible performances to give off a feeling of relevance by putting together contemporary issues in very human struggles and mistakes.

The movie focuses on four interrelated sets of situations and characters, and many events are revealed out of sequence. Richard and Susan (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) are a wealthy couple from San Diego who are vacationing in Morocco in order to heal after the death of their young child; their other two children are at home with their Mexican maid, Amelia (Adriana Barraza). In a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, a rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons (Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El Caid), who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and catch Susan in the shoulder, causing her to nearly lose her life. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who promptly departs for Mexico to attend her child’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with the harsh immigration policies of the Bush administration. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower (Koji Yakusho) tied to the rifle in question attempts to deal with his memories and his raucous, promiscuous, deaf daughter (Rinko Kikuchi).

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A few words to explain this movie would be Crash + International, However every performance devastating, offering an intimate, emotional experience that would be close to tacky if it weren’t done so realistically. If you have never experienced this movie, I recommend checking it out, you will be pleasantly surprised.

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