Feb 26 2007
Guest movie review
My brother Jim offers his opinion on the movie “Babel.”
OK. The “plot” of Babel: American tourists, at a loss for common sense, vacation in Morocco for some unknown reason. Tourist wife gets shot - accidentally - by some punk Moroccan kids. Because of this, the tourists are stuck in Morocco for a while. Meanwhile back in the States, their kids end up going to Mexico for some wedding with the Mexican nanny. They get to see a guy break the neck of a chicken and pull its head off. On the way back across the border, they get in a hassle with the border guys, which leads to a chase that ends when the guy giving them a lift drops the kids and the nanny in the desert. Kids and nanny almost die, nanny is deported. Back in Morocco, wife is eventually choppered out and survives.
For some strange reason there is another tangent about some deaf-mute Japanese girl who seems particularly horny but can’t get any. Her father gave a rifle to a Moroccan guy, who sold it to the father of the punk Moroccan kids, who shot the American tourist. Pretty weak link to the rest of the story.
Does that pretty much sum it up?
For some strange reason there is another tangent about some deaf-mute Japanese girl who seems particularly horny but can’t get any. Her father gave a rifle to a Moroccan guy, who sold it to the father of the punk Moroccan kids, who shot the American tourist. Pretty weak link to the rest of the story.
Does that pretty much sum it up?
Man, that reviewer knows his shit.
I can’t get past babel fish, the little fish you put in your ear to translate alien languages in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I get the whole circular reference gig, but I don’t understand why this film needed to be made
It needed to be made because Crash won at the Oscars, proving that tedious stories about the interconnectedness of our lives and the law of unintended consequences can win awards.