Babel (2006)
This Oscar winner is an absolute treat for the mind. A twisted tale of four seemingly unrelated stories with no real deep connection but one thing in common - how humans cope with unexpected worse case scenarios (things they wouldn't even dream of happeneing even in their ugliest nightmares) and how life can get so difficult, so trying, so unfair and eventually so... righteous.
Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu as done a phenomenal job of story-telling with the correct mix of sensitivity and brutality, using a soothing background score and scorching locations for the cinematic effect. He is a mezmerizing story teller (which I could also tell from his earlier "21 grams")
Cate Blanchett plays the unlucky woman who gets shot by freak gunfire in Morocco by two kids whose father has just bought a rifle. The rifle originally belonged to a Japanese man whose daughter is deaf and mute who is hungry for love. (sex alike) Brad Pitt desperately tries to save Cate in Tazarine while their kids are back home being taken care off by a Mexican nanny, who has to reach home for her son's wedding. She takes the kids along with her to Mexico, eventually gets caught by the police and is deported out of the States. The young man who mistakenly shot at Cate surrenders to the police not before his innocent younger brother gets killed in gunfire. And as for the young Japanese woman, she doesn't get to have sex, neither can she ever get over the visual of her mom killing herself.
This mastereous inter-racial storyline is crafted for simplicity and human endurance. Thumbs up.
Rate - 4/5
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