Babel

Confusion of sound and other voices, that is what babel means. A good movie indeed. There is always a feeling that movie is telling you something and you can hear silent communication but still do not get what exactly it is. But still, understand the feel of what it is trying to say. I am not able to articulate exactly what movie is trying to say but understand tacitly.

Many reviewers have talked about 4 stories twinned together, however, I feel there are five. First the American couple on vacation in Morocco. Second, nanny of their children and her family in Mexico.Third, Japanese father and daughter. Fourth, Moroccan sheep tending family and fifth,the Moroccan hunting guide and his family. A single gun shot unfolds the film and its complex relationships, communication and characters. The plot is quite understandable and predictable after the gun shot is fired. Full credit to the director therefore, for a very nice way of unfolding the story and bringing out the events that take place. What is so beautiful about the story telling I liked was the way we perceive our small inner world and how we interact in outer world. And the struggle within the mind about the outer world and inner world. Look at the Japanese girl. She has her own world in which she has this feeling of rejection, this world is so intimate and important to her that her interactions get completely distorted in the outer world. But, I said distorted, distorted how? In my way of looking at the things. So another two circles come into existence, my (viewer's inner world) and the world of the film.

After the movie gets over, this thought still remains with you and at least for some time you start seeing the things a little differently. The success of the film is making people understand this may be implicitly or certain cases explicitly.

As a director, probably, some of the baggage could have been offloaded. Overall a very interesting film. Prompts me to see his 21 grams and the other in the trilogy.

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