"Bad movies are not about any idea, mediocre films deal with many ideas, good movies are about a single idea" conventional wisdom the film industry (which is a better way to say I do not remember where I read it).
The myth of the Tower of Babel, the drama perfectly Aristotelian in his narrative, which has always been the human summary of solitary confinement, is, according to some scholars, associated with loss, which occurred at some point in the prehistory of hominids or their ancestors, the ability to communicate with each other without making any noise as they do still many species of animals. Any loss in evolution is rather an exchange, so this way of communicating with their peer was "sacrificed" for the sake of a new form of communication which entailed using noises of various kinds and eventually became the verbalization of how do modern homo sapiens sapiens. But that transition period, the gradual and temporary blackout of the possibilities of communication that went on while acquiring new skills and more noise, trauma has left imprinted on the collective unconscious.
"Babel" The movie directed by Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga fellow explores with unusual skill that primal trauma of being misunderstood, that " angst, possibly anchored in the most basal reptilian brain, which is caused for the suffering they bring themselves realize that communication efforts are not properly decoded by the other members of the species, that is, I'm talking about because I need you and I do not understand and go back to talk to you and you still not understand, call the number emergencies, because right now I am suffering and the person who listens and who speaks with my own code does not understand me or is capable then send the ambulance to my address. That stifling communication gap that seems to condemn an \u200b\u200boverwhelming loneliness that the individual does not believe now be able to survive, in the same way that the animal is not very distant ancestor believed to be able to fend off the ambush predators, then in that had clouded his ability to receive timely warnings silent or to alert the rest of the package without making a sound.
Since the idea of \u200b\u200bthe duet title Inarritu-Arriaga is clearly stated: "Babel" is an allegorical reference to acute isolation and despair it causes disease. And to this he devotes disciplined and entertainingly, the film, with room for only a few digressions.
Formally, the play takes dramatic rectify the audiovisual language-as-principal's decision creates and recreates the tension with his natural talent for story-teller. While the three parallel stories of the film was not lend themselves to selective modesty, the director shows the containment characteristic of mature artists, some with less self-control might have fallen into the delicious temptation to add more elements (integrators or digressive) between history and another, the occasional wisp regisseur a less mature or perhaps restrain capacity if he had included. (How dare I think that I have included some hidden references to a site that will link with another: a poster of two wings far between, perhaps a leit-motiff just for my vanity, but I did not heed the candidate Oscar is Iñárritu). However, this maturity does not make Iñarritu narrative or the director of photography Rodrigo Prieto give to incur the contemporary so dizzy from the camera "nervous" (sometimes seems like an MTV cameraman with over three Red Bulls), the contrapicado at full speed, to the framing a little less than square. (The last scene in which the camera moves away swiftly the balcony of the skyscraper is a technical sampler I wonder how it was achieved).
The movie moves smoothly and clutching almost heroically in the effort to address this very idea of \u200b\u200bcommunication among human beings, who have not passed yet and will not do in the next hundred thousand years in which the cubic capacity of its mass brain will grow the size of a teaspoon, "in tension teach the validity of the ancestral trauma, tax forever that first drop of the communication, that indelible primal Babel we still causes nightmares in which we are held incommunicado in a desert border depersonalized in a city or in caves of the Atlas mountains, cut off even though we are surrounded by many people who speak the same language.
not miss the movie.
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