Babel Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Painful but amazing

I urge everyone to go see this film - at the cinema if possible - to be part of the incredible emotional journey this movie takes you on. The film is composed of three concurrent storylines set in three different locations: Morocco, Japan and Mexico. The stories are formed like one photograph that has been ripped into three and then pasted back together in crooked fashion - the points of connection make an incredible, indelible impact on you. Notable performances for me are those of Brad Pitt, Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi and the young goat herder Boubker Ait El Caid, all victims of the mysteries of small, but significant moments of chance. This is a tapestry of emotion and how a moment in time can change everything. It's heartbreaking and painful - but ultimately a great and thought-provoking journey.

a bit epic

The film was good overall however I do believe that is was unnecessarily long. Also the main characters (Brad and Cate)were far from being the main interest in the film for me. I was much more interested in the children and the nanny story in all this.

The explanation of how the gun came to be where it was had great relevance to the film and the point it was trying to make, however, I am not sure we needed to know all about the previous owners daughter and her life in such weird detail.