Saturday could not have been better with the movie’Babel’ playing in my room with my intimate friends around.
1st plot: Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett trying to break free(?) and goes on a long trip to Morocco.
2nd plot: An accidental firing by two kids of a goat herder results in political waves and swings across the nation.
3rd plot: In Mexico a Nanny of two American kids goes out to attend her grand son’s marriage and series of unfortunate events follows.
4th plot:
In Tokyo, a deaf and dumb girl(Rinko Kikuchi), battling with her
isolation and cops looking out for her father who was a hunter in his
young days.
And these four plots create the Babel where the
director Alejandro Gonzalez stitches these 4 plots so beautifully that
you are hooked to the screen till the end. Brad Pitt has justified his
role for the moment he got as well Cate. Sign language was beautifully
woven though I am not sure if the sub titles were there in the theater
issue as I was watching a DVD.
Do not know if it was an intentional
babel that the director wanted to create when Brad asks Cate discusses
about her tensions -’are you still tensed?. Will you forgive me?.’
No backdrop of the incident is given keeping audience in loop. Another
incident when the Rinko(Tokyo plot) delivers a letter to the cop where
the contents were not disclosed to the audience keeping viewers
guessing.
The best thing I liked about this movie is that the
plots were not kept till the end for a suspense revelation instead the
plots were beautifully carried and revealed during the development of
the movie. As a whole a nice Sunday movie to be watched with Dominos
Pizza which you get really cheap now a days.( Dominos guys - I should
be paid for this advertisement - r u listening;-)