Monday, November 1, 2010

Review of "Babel"

After coming to Dhangadi, the most difficult thing for me was spending time during the weekend. And if I miss Pokhara on any day then it was especially during the weekend…especially the swimming in Begnas and Pame, bike ride to Sarangkot and hanging around in chipledhunga and infront of Binayak store with no any reason. Oops…..how carefree were those days………… but after coming to Dhangadi all those beautiful moments were gone…………...neither here are any such beautiful places nor I have any good companion…….…for me the only thing to do during the weekened was either facebooking or watching movie. So during my last visit to Pokhara I bought lots of DVDs from “Music Mania” to watch during the weekend. There were almost around 30 – 40 DVDs. I had thought they would help me for at least next six months…but guess what I finished them just in a month. Sometimes for the whole day during the weekend there was no any thing to do so my routine was just sitting in the room and watching movies. But among such list of movies there were only a few I enjoyed and some movies I didn’t even completed because I didn’t like to watch till the end after watching for 15 minutes.

But one of the best movie among these was Babel….it was very good and was surprised after watching this movie …… the only thing that came in my mind after watching the movie was “Oh my god ! how can someone be so creative and link the stories in such a way”…..yeah the movie made provided me a huge refreshment and I couldn’t stop myself from writing the blog.

The movie is shot in four countires Morocco, Japan, Mexico and America. The greatest thing I enjoyed is the plot created which links the event in one country to another. In Morocco a bus carrying tourists is shot by two children who are looking after goats. They actually wanted to test how far their newly bought rifle hits and they target at the tourist bus. Among a American couple in the bus the lady is hit by the bullet on her neck. The search for how the rifle came takes the story to Japan. A Japanese hunter who was once in Morocco gave the rifle to his guide while returning to Japan. This Japanese man has a deaf and dumb adolescent daughter who is eager to break her virginity. While all her friends are dating with guys and having fun she has no any male friend and when guys know she is dumb they avoid her, this makes the girl frustrated. The story plot of the movie also revolves around USA and Mexico. The couple who were shot in the bus in Morocco have two kids in their home in USA and a Mexican maid is looking after them. The maid wants a leave for a day to attend her sons wedding in Mexico but she finds no one to look after the babies. So she takes the babies to Mexico along with her and the kids also enjoy the wild Mexican party. While returning to USA from Mexico the driver who is drunk gets into scuffle with police. Finally the couple shot in Morocco is rescued to USA with series of failed attempts.

The most interesting part of the movie is getting to know about life in rural part of Morocco and getting acquainted with wild Mexican party. The sexual desire of a deaf and dumb Japanese adolescent girl is well portrayed in the movie. The love and care shown by Mexican caretaker to the American kids is portrayed very well. It was horrible to watch the way a vetenary doctor in Morocco sews the neck of American girl hit by bullet.

The best part of movie is it gives a multicultural taste. The movie is worth watching and is a good time pass.