http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449467/
preview
http://movies.clevver.com/video/19212/babel-trailer.php

anyone else wanting to see this?

Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal <3, Shilpa Shetty, Elle Fanning
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu(21 grams, amores perros)
Producer: Steve Golin, Jon Kilik, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Rating: R
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Release: Nov 17, 2006

I will be seeing this if only to look at gael garcia.

i want to see this
it looks amazing

i like how the cokehead from rules of attraction is playin a cop

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my heart isn't black, it's just dirty from the floors

Gael <3 What a great cast.

I´ve been meaning to watch Amorres Perros again. It´s been too long.

wow this movie was really depressing!!

but the korean girl was amazing.

Hehe me too, Babel and the Science of Sleep.

Gael Garcia Bernal is fine.. He is an awesome actor and i have to see this movie

I didn't think this movie was very good...and Gael's role was quite small.

yeah it's like they made too many bad things happen all at once to all the characters. just to be edgey.

the nanny deserves an oscar. but gael was basically in one scene where he flips out with the border patrol.

i saw it last week. meehh..it was OK.

Anyone seen it? I saw it on Saturday night and it broke my fucking heart.
I love Blanchett so much.

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it was good. its going to be a little bit big this one isnt it. doesnt hit me the same way lil miss sunshine did tho..

I absolutely adored this film!

I think it's this year's Crash but much better(I mention Crash way too much when discussing other films on this board.)


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I like how instead of just using the dynamic of "everyone speaks a different language" they had a subplot involving deaf teenage girls. Maybe it's just my lack of diversity in choosing films to watch, but I haven't seen anything memorable about a deaf person's struggle to communicate to the people around her before...I also really liked that they had the Japan teens plot established so that the film connected with a young audience. I totally know what it feels like as a 16 year old girl to be desperately hoping that a guy will notice me and to just try to act slutty like the main girl did in Babel and the scenes where the girl was rejected, such as when her bestfriend hooked upw ith the guy she was after or when the detective wouldn't screw her and she was humiliated and felt unwanted, made me feel so much sympathy. and of course I thought "damn. Girls in Japan face the exact same stuff as teen girls in Canada do...humans really are all so similar" cept then you know...if you're deaf and can't get your thoughts across as easily as non-deaf people can, then the struggle to connect with other people seems a lot harder...oh and I just remembered that scene where those boys were going to hit on the two deaf girls, then realized they were deaf and made fun of them. that crushed my insides.

other good things: the relationship of cate blanchett and brad pitt. I was very happy when it seemed like they'd patched their relationship up by the end of the film. The part where he held the bucket under her for her to piss in was really sweet. (...that sentence sounds funny.) I liked that instead of everyone's stories randomly intertwining in the middle of the film or at the end, it was established at the very beginning that two of the stories (the mexican maid and brad & cate) were connected.

I realize I just wrote a ton and most likely no one will read this but I'm gonna continue....A) gael garcia bernal is a fucking fox. I realize he barely had any lines, but I think he's a really solid actor and when he is on screen, he's great.
B) How awful would it be to have been in the Mexican maid's situation? Her situation just kept getting worse and worse..Especially when she couldn't find the kids in the desert. I felt so much sympathy for her character, and I never realized how ignorant I was until I saw this film, of the problems around the U.S. /Mexico border. (Did anyone notice the framed picture of george w.bush hanging in the office of the American border police?) C)I liked how they had very young actors (such as the boys in the Middle East, I've already forgotten the name of the country they were in) that had large roles. Those two young middle eastern actors were very good which I'm sure would be hard at such a young age to handle such mature content...I mean, they got freaking shot to smithereens! And of course cate and brad's children were ADORABLE. I liked the little scene with the boy reacting to the chicken slaughtering. I wanted to pick him up in my arms and give him a hug when he started freaking out. AND , now I'm almost done, D) I have been on ecstasy, at least over 10 times in my life, and to me, that was a very nice representation of the drug to me when the Japanese kids took pills and played in the fountain and went clubbing. The music was really pretty and poppy too.

I agree - and I thought that she (the actress and the character) was fabulous - possibly the best performance in the film.

Yeah, mine too. But a lot of this film did that to me - totally broke my heart. I identified in different ways with so many of the characters that their pain sort of felt like it was my own, although those situations are alien to me.

Yeah - I cried in that first tense scene with the Coke and the ice between them, because you could tell how deeply he had wounded her, although we don't at that stage know how. I cried at lots of the Cate stuff for some reason - like when she was telling him "Don't ever leave them..."
I expected a bigger role for Pitt, by the way people have been talking about the film, and he wasn't showcased as much as I'd thought but again, I cried when he was on the phone to his son. I was very emotional that day, evidently.

QUOTE]A) gael garcia bernal is a fucking fox. I realize he barely had any lines, but I think he's a really solid actor and when he is on screen, he's great.[/quote]

A-fucking-men. I want his babies every time I see him.

I thought she was wonderful, and although she's not such a star name as Gael, she should have been on the posters. I noticed the framed picture too. It made me nervous. I was a little disappointed with the rescue of the kids - it seemed like they shouldn't have survived, and while that might have been too much bad news for Amelia, and possibly unrealistic in the wider context of the film, it seemed like a hurried Hollywood resolution. I was unsatisfied by their off-screen rescue too.

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i was really underwhelmed by babel.

i didnt hate it, i didnt like it.

i think its quite hard to connect with a movie where the director is obsessed with throwing every possible obstacle their way. after 30 minutes its like 'well, you know its not going to get better, so why the fuck should i care for these characters?'.

the acting was amazing though, but i felt the story was really lacking (too similar to his previous movie, 21 grams).

i certainly dont get all the rave reviews it has gotten, it was only a bit above average imo.

there were two stories that i just connected with more in the film. first is the housekeeper encountering troubles in the mexican border. that last part in her story was so harrowing and jarring that i was seething in my seat. people can be so stupid. and the woman who played the housekeeper was really affecting. i also loved the story in tokyo, which was really all about rinko kikuchi. this girl is amazing. she is so expressive, even without talking. the scene in the club when she's watching her friends dancing to music she cannot hear was very profound. i kind of hope she steals the oscar from jennifer hudson's fat fingers.

yah i agree...profound is right...

but i also think that it was a bit over the top with all the obstacles constantly being thrown at the nonwhite characters. i mean it took away from the realism of the film. i guess its just as bad to be racist as it is to deliberately victimize certain characters like the maid in the desert..while the white kids survive. hmm..ok?

also i thought brad and blanchett were ok, but nothing really compared to adriana and rinko's unique performances.

I loved it to start off with, but I lost interest the further the story went on.

The deaf girl's story was great though, amazing from start to finish and the actress deserves her Oscar nod for that. As does the Mexican nanny although her story became increasingly unbelievable, the conclusion was tear-jerking.

I wasn't moved by the Cate/Brad story much aside from the crying on the phone, although the Coke/ice cube scene was good too. More interested in Notes On A Scandal Cate though.

Am I being prudish or was the wanking kid scene unnecessary? The whole cinema was taken aback by that and I can't really think what purpose it served, other than to shock (or maybe expose the fact that he isn't the "perfect son", but I believe his later actions show this well enough).

Arf, hope this is spoiler proof.

I felt really squeamish when that part was on too. I'd definitely never seen anything like that in a film before, I mean involving a child ... I think that might be the only part of this film that I personally would say seemed too much that it was done for shock effect...I mean true, masturbating is a very natural function and is very innocent when done by young children who don't fully understand the concept of "Sex", however, I felt like a pervert for watching it..I wasn't gonna close my eyes or anything cus I never put my hands over my face in sexually or violently explicit films, but I'd rather not have seen that. It could've been much shorter or more implied.