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BABEL Babel is the newest film by Alejandro Gonz‡lez I–‡rritu. It has been rated as one of the best films of 2006 and it deserves such a recognition. Since his early days in the movie game he made some really good films like, Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama TambiŽn. This definitely is a film that should be seen and in my most humble opinion it is already a gem on my movie chart. This movie is right next to Pulp Fiction and The Matrix on my greatest films ever. This film is just straight up fire, and there are a lot a folks trying to do the out of order scene type of suspense, but I don't think they do it as well I–arritu. Must be because he has a special touch from the Aztec Gods that allow him to do pimp things. 2006 was over for movies on my radar until I–arritu took us on a new odyssey with this master piece, where the feelings and the different ways of communication are mixed from oral to sign language. Four different stories from four different cultures and four different outcomes make you realize how big and small this world is at the same time and how in some way we are all connected in this planet. No matter if you are from Mexico, Morocco, Japan or Tijuana we all listen and understand some type of language. The I–irratu style is dead on in the movie from beginning to end. It's clear that he did what he has done in previous films by tying all the stories together at the end. Another thing that I–irratu knows how to do well is choose the person to do the score because just by the way the music flows during the film it clearly expresses so much during the drama of the stories. Babel has been Brad Pitt's best role in years. This movie made Brad seem more mature, it really gives him a change of air from being the sex symbol that he always play in his movies, to being the more serious leading role character in the movie. Also, Gael Garcia has become the Latino face in independent films in Hollywood and it seems that he's a personal favorite actor by I–arritu, cause if we all remember Gael has been one of I–irratus choices in the majority of his films, so yeah Gael is the Latino face of Hollywood more then unlikely. The thing that makes I–irratus films so good is the atmosphere of suspense that he creates throughout the movie and plus he gives you food for your thoughts by leaving out of the picture a couple of details. I like the way he does that because he actually makes me imagine different outcomes of the movie. The movie is not a movie for everybody to like so I will recommend that if you see the movie please keep an open mind. Not only because it is a slow movie, but because the movie touches some sensitive issues for the modern US and our modern world, immigration and terrorism. It depicts a reality because there are deportations every day in the States even due to a bad judgment call and there are no second chances for the victim of deportation or for the families. Also if anybody from a Muslim country accidentally kills or injures an American citizen we in the United States don't even second guess and call it a terrorist act. I think that the movie points out that we misjudge and make bad calls that jeopardize our destiny, but in the end we are all just humans. Immigration and terrorism are and will be issues that will come up in every day conversation. This film helps to put in your face the problems and events that happen on an every day basis, but that we don't think about which definitely makes it more real and appealing to our times and our society.
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