Babel
This movie was one of the best films I have seen in a long time and it has resurrected my love and respect for movies in general. It is four interwoven stories that all have a loose connection. It takes place in three very different cultures: Japan, Morocco and Mexico. The cinematography was beautiful and gave you a real sense of the place and the landscape. The three places were juxtasposed in such a way to be strikingly aware of how very different they all are from each other.
The movie is mainly about communication and the lack there of. There are 7 languages spoken in the film, which heightens the idea of barriers to communication, but there is a lot more to communication than mere spoken language. Religion, age, gender, economics, and education also play significant roles in how people can have a hard time relating and communicating with each other. It also goes to show you that the world is getting smaller and smaller. We all are affecting each other all over the world all the time and we are going to have a harder and harder time if we don't try to familiarize ourselves with people of different races, cultures and religions.
I recently went on the Internet Movie Database to look at what others had to say about this film. It was nice to see many open-minded people who enjoyed the fact that it forces the mind to think and analyze. But there were many, many people who were so marrow-minded as to say things so far off the mark that all they did was scream ignorance. Sometimes it is hard to have much faith in people here and it is scary that so many can be so shallow and empty and unwilling to give anything different a little bit of a chance.
So, please, if you want to be exposed to something new, see the world, think for yourself and feel complex human emotion and empathy for others, see this movie. And for anyone who refuses to see it because they don't like Brad Pitt...well, it would be sad to let him keep you from such a beautiful and important film. Plus, he isn't even in it very much.
I hope to have more book and movie and media reviews on here from now on. I feel like I have so much to say and in this day and age in this country more and more people need to speak out!!!
The movie is mainly about communication and the lack there of. There are 7 languages spoken in the film, which heightens the idea of barriers to communication, but there is a lot more to communication than mere spoken language. Religion, age, gender, economics, and education also play significant roles in how people can have a hard time relating and communicating with each other. It also goes to show you that the world is getting smaller and smaller. We all are affecting each other all over the world all the time and we are going to have a harder and harder time if we don't try to familiarize ourselves with people of different races, cultures and religions.
I recently went on the Internet Movie Database to look at what others had to say about this film. It was nice to see many open-minded people who enjoyed the fact that it forces the mind to think and analyze. But there were many, many people who were so marrow-minded as to say things so far off the mark that all they did was scream ignorance. Sometimes it is hard to have much faith in people here and it is scary that so many can be so shallow and empty and unwilling to give anything different a little bit of a chance.
So, please, if you want to be exposed to something new, see the world, think for yourself and feel complex human emotion and empathy for others, see this movie. And for anyone who refuses to see it because they don't like Brad Pitt...well, it would be sad to let him keep you from such a beautiful and important film. Plus, he isn't even in it very much.
I hope to have more book and movie and media reviews on here from now on. I feel like I have so much to say and in this day and age in this country more and more people need to speak out!!!
posted by Ana | 7:58 AM
1 Comments:
I have only seen a few minutes of Babel, popping in here and there this afternoon to investigate sound issues that were reported to me from over the weekend, but what I saw I liked very much. Don't know if I'll get to it this week - because I'm for sure watching Shut Up And Sing on Thursday night - but I am more interested in it now than I was yesterday.
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