Posted in 24, Keri Russell, babel, bourne ultimatum; robert ludlum; paul greengrass, box set, brad pitt, csi, dvd, dvds, heroes, jason bourne, lena headey, television, waitress, tagged 300; dvd; harry potter, lives of others; babel on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here are my favourite DVDs of the year:
1. The Lives of Others -masterful, poetic, a German language film with a powerful plot line about love, despair, surveilance and omniscience. This was my favourite film of the year.
2. The Waitress – quirky, sweet but not saccharine take this film, add an evening off and a large [...]
Posted in babel, brad pitt, christianity, culture, jesus, movie, review on August 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Themes worth exploring in Babel:
Connectivity -
3 out of 4 of the plot threads is connected through a hunting rifle – emphasizing the way that our lives impact on one another’s and the now globalised connectivity. Is globalisation being critiqued as the new babel like hubris. A japanese tourist gives a gun to a Morrocan guide [...]
Posted in babel, brad pitt, culture, review on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in babel, brad pitt, christianity, culture, jesus, movie, review on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I really enjoyed this movie. It parallels the multithread plotlines of films like 21 grammes (also directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu) and Crash. It is a lot darker than Crash but deals with the same paradox of interconnectedness and yet isolation. Where as Crash explored this in one city, LA, Babel takes a truly global [...]
