I saw Babel last night. This movie is very intense, emotional, and gripping. In a small isolated village in the Moroccan desert, two brothers are involved in an accident. The two brothers challenge each other to shoot at a tour bus. The younger one does so and in the process hits an American tourist (Cate Blanchett). Her husband (Brad Pitt) is frantic and struggling to survive. Meanwhile, their children are in the United States with their Mexican nanny who needs to attend her son’s wedding. Since she cannot get anyone to watch the two kids, she ends up taking the children illegally to Mexico. In Tokyo, a Japanese man is sought after by the police: he sold the hunting rifle to a man in Morocco, who later sold it to the father of the two boys who started the domino effect of events.
Babel is an intense and emotional film about how one single, seemingly insignificant, act can change the course of events. Personally, I could not pull myself away from watching it. Usually, my attention span is pretty short when it comes to watching movies. This film is 2 hours and 22 minutes and I managed to sit through the entire thing.
