Two young boys are playing around and shoot a gun in Morocco. The reulting actions throw multiple lives and storylines into disarray and even dredge up a possible international crisis. This is the basic premise of Babel, and the way it is executed make the film Oscar-worthy.
The storyline of Babel is like a threaded rope. Many smaller stories combine into one larger, stronger, and overall more interesting and complex story. The director sets up these stories in ironically opposed viewpoints to show how human stories from different backgrounds can not only be similar, but intertwined.
This movie makes the audience connect with characters in a way that most large budget films today cannot. The story is almost completely character-driven atfer the shooting and each brilliantly acted character draws us deeper into our story and lets us decide who can identify with the most. Not to say, however, that we cannot identify with all the characters on some sort of level.
Well acted, well-written, and amazingly directed. A must see.
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