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Babel [HD DVD] 
Actors : Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight
Director : Alejandro González Iñárritu
Studio : Paramount Home Entertainment
by Paramount Home Entertainment
Brand : Paramount
Release Date : 2007-02-20
Publisher : Paramount Home Entertainment
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0097361222240
UPC : 097361222240
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 376 reviews)
List Price : $39.99
Our Price : $6.90
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Product Description |
Paramount Babel - HD DVD
In "Babel," a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear, and displacement, each character discovers that it is family that ultimately provides solace. In the remote sands of the Moroccandesert, a rifle shot rings out? detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple's frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is soughtby the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief. In the course of just a few days, they will eachface the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost ? lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves ? as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love. In this mesmerizing, emotional film that was shot in three continents and four languages ? and traverses both the deeply personal and the explosively political ? acclaimed director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("21 Grams," "Amores Perros") explores with shattering realism the nature of the barriers that seem to separate humankind. In doing so, he evokes the ancient concept of "Babel" and questions its modern dayimplications: the mistaken identities, misunderstandings and missed chances for communication that,though often unseen, drive our contemporary lives. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi lead an international ensemble of actors and non-professional actors from Morocco, Tijuana and Tokyo, who enrich "Babel's" take on cultural diversity andenhance its pow |
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Brilliantly conceived, superbly directed, and beautifully acted, Babel is inarguably one of the best films of 2006. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-writer, Guillermo Arriaga (the two also collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams) weave together the disparate strands of their story into a finely hewn fabric by focusing on what appear to be several equally incongruent characters: an American (Brad Pitt) touring Morocco with his wife (Cate Blanchett) become the focus of an international incident also involving a hardscrabble Moroccan farmer (Mustapha Rachidi) struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny (Adriana Barraza), her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take their kids with her to a wedding in Mexico. And a deaf-mute Japanese teen (the extraordinary Rinko Kikuchi) deals with a relationship with her father (Koji Yakusho) and the world in general that's been upended by the death of her mother. It is perhaps not surprising, or particularly original, that a gun is the device that ties these people together. Yet Babel isn't merely about violence and its tragic consequences. It's about communication, and especially the lack of it--both intercultural, raising issues like terrorism and immigration, and intracultural, as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children. Iñárritu's command of his medium, sound and visual alike, is extraordinary; the camera work is by turns kinetic and restrained, the music always well matched to the scenes, the editing deft but not confusing, and the film (which clocks in at a lengthy 143 minutes) is filled with indelible moments. Many of those moments are also pretty stark and grim, and no will claim that all of this leads to a "happy" ending, but there is a sense of reconciliation, perhaps even resolution. "If You Want to be Understood... Listen," goes the tagline. And if you want a movie that will leave you thinking, Babel is it. --Sam Graham Beyond Babel 
Other Interweaving Storylines on DVD | 
Other DVDs by Director Alejandro González Iñárritu | 
Why We Love Cate Blanchett | Stills from Babel (click for larger image) |
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"Babel" - left wing Hollywood does it again |
What did I learn from watching "Babel"?
1. Never leave your kids alone with a Mexican Nannie.
2. Being a Tokyo dentist has its perks.
3. Americans - just stay the F out of the Middle East.
Of course, the way this movie is produced is you're supposed to feel bad for the drunk Mexican endangering the lives of two little kids, and the "bad guys" are the border patrol officers who try to help them.
We are also supposed to feel bad for two Morrocan kids who shoot an innocent American tourist, and a Japanese deaf/mute slut (I'm not kidding) who flashes her snatch all over Tokyo.
I give this movie a "C", unless you're a smarter than the rest of us liberal movie reviewer, who all loved this lame movie. |
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Awful |
This is a perfect example of what happens when a decent idea is poorly developed. A shame.
We waited for it--it being the plot, and characters worth caring about. And now that the movie is over, we are still waiting. Even though there were several interesting aspects, overall it was a waste of the concept. |
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CONFUSING |
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This was the most confusing crock that I have watched in a long time. Already about an hour too long, I had to keep rewinding segments because I thought that I missed something. But I didn't miss anything - the producers and director did - they missed what makes a really good movie. The subject matter is confusing enough without trying to interweave a "Crash"-type scenario across continents and cultures. I'm still trying to figure out how the Mexican nanny fits in and she was the most sympathetic character. The Japanese segment could have been left out altogether - deaf students, weapons, detectives, discos - just too much to digest, with no sake to wash it down with. Leave this one alone and watch "Happy Feet" - fast moving penguins make more sense with their flippers than this movie does! |
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What was good about this? |
Wow, what a stinker. I was told this was like "Crash." I liked Crash - a lot. This movie drags like molasses as we are shown several different stories that so obviously interconnect that you would have to be a simpleton not to connect most of them long before the reveal.
But mostly, in between long boring scenes which are supposed to teach us about other cultures I suppose, you get to watch stupid people make stupid decision after stupid decision.
My wife and I were talking aloud during the last 30 minutes without even pausing the movie as we discussed the stupid things that were happening and how annoying the whole thing had been.
THEN, they wrap it up with a Hollywood ending that leaves almost no one paying real consequences for their actions and even contradict what you have supposedly known the entire movie.
This was just plain pathetic. I'm disappointed in humanity that this is considered an acclaimed movie. |
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Interesting and it kept my attention |
No big review here, just that it was interesting and involved 4 separate yet linked events going on around the globe. Brad Pitt more angry than concerned of his wife being shot while Cate Blanchett didn't really get to do much acting, besides laying there. The kids in the village were the key to the movie.
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