BabelDirected by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring Brad Pitt, Kate Blanchett, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Arriaga
One of the two subtle yet powerful films (the other being Little Children) of 2006, Babel is a cleverly scripted, wonderfully directed and beautifully acted tale of communication (more the lack of it) across different cultures. Along the lines of Crash and Little Children, the story is interlocked by characters who are related to one another in one way or the other.
There's the American couple (Pitt and Blanchett) who meets with an unfortunate shooting incident vacationing in Morroco due to two boys' mischief with a rifle that's from a Japanese hunter. At the same time, their nanny brings their children out of the American border to Mexico without permission and meets with trouble at the customs. Meanwhile the ex-Japanese hunter has a broken relationship with his deaf daughter whose emotional turmoils are upended by her mum's suicide.
Where the actors all have limited screen time alloted to them, each gave solid performances especially Rinko Kikuchi whose vulnerability leads to her vicarious sexual abandonment. Brad Pitt reaches a level of sensitivity previously unseen of while Adriana Barraza plays the delirious nanny whose one moment of folly throws her life out of order.
Through all these little stories lie the message of the power of communication - the lack of it in all the situations, creating misunderstandings and culminating in unnecessary tragedies. (A+)
Starring Brad Pitt, Kate Blanchett, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Arriaga
One of the two subtle yet powerful films (the other being Little Children) of 2006, Babel is a cleverly scripted, wonderfully directed and beautifully acted tale of communication (more the lack of it) across different cultures. Along the lines of Crash and Little Children, the story is interlocked by characters who are related to one another in one way or the other.
There's the American couple (Pitt and Blanchett) who meets with an unfortunate shooting incident vacationing in Morroco due to two boys' mischief with a rifle that's from a Japanese hunter. At the same time, their nanny brings their children out of the American border to Mexico without permission and meets with trouble at the customs. Meanwhile the ex-Japanese hunter has a broken relationship with his deaf daughter whose emotional turmoils are upended by her mum's suicide.
Where the actors all have limited screen time alloted to them, each gave solid performances especially Rinko Kikuchi whose vulnerability leads to her vicarious sexual abandonment. Brad Pitt reaches a level of sensitivity previously unseen of while Adriana Barraza plays the delirious nanny whose one moment of folly throws her life out of order.
Through all these little stories lie the message of the power of communication - the lack of it in all the situations, creating misunderstandings and culminating in unnecessary tragedies. (A+)
[7x Golden Globe nominee, Oscar hopeful.]
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