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January 28, 2007
crossing movies off the list
Mess, Annie and I went and saw Babel this afternoon.
Spoilers and thoughts behind the extended entry.
What a boring, boring POS. What a lot of work for nothing.
We determined it was trying to be Crash (which is brilliant) and failed miserably. Crashed and burned, you might say.
There was one thing I liked in it and it involved a techno club and the deaf Japanese girl. The director cut to showing her and you can hear the music and then it would cut to showing the club through her eyes and it was completely silent. Too bad it couldn't have been in a better movie.
The string that ties these people together is stupid (a gun that the Japanese man owned, but gave to a farmer in Morrocco on a hunting trip and then cate blanchett was shot with it). I don't even know what the point of the movie was.
I have to admit, the acting by the Mexican maid and the Japanese school girl was very good. I wouldn't mind seeing them in something else.
Oof.
Posted by jennj at January 28, 2007 05:32 PM
Clue-ments:
I saw it last night too.
Same deal even after I thought about it for a while.
I don't know why people thought this should be best picture. I did like some of the cinematography, but maybe that is because I love Morocco, Japan, and the desert near Mexico.
I would have been more interested in a movie about the Japanese girl alone. Good stuff with the dance scene and the scene on the swing.
I saw other common threads besides the rifle, but won't go into them here, because they weren't that clever.
We get it... we're all connected somehow. There are other movies that have done it better. That premise is a bit tired, by the way, at least in the way it was presented here.
Bring on a movie about an adolescent deaf mute Japanese girl living in the cold cyberpunk society that is Tokyo!
Posted by: Iwan at January 29, 2007 11:37 AM
Iwan - I've thought about it since I saw it also and still stay with my original assessment. I thought some of the Cinematography was pretty good too. I do NOT understand how it's up for best pic.
Hmm. A part of me wants to hear what you thought were the other common threads but the biggest part of me doesn't care enough about the movie to even hear them. :-)
>>>bring on a movie about an adolescent deaf mute Japanese girl....
That sounds like a William Gibson novel.....
The Japanese girl and maid are nominated for best supporting actress Oscars.
Posted by: cf at January 29, 2007 06:48 PM