The highly emotional drama features superstar Brad Pitt at his best.
Seven – Os Sete Crimes Capitais, Clube da Luta, Os 12 Macacos – since these titles have been around for several years (decadas), everyone who is only slightly interested in cinema reads about them. On the contrary, Babel, another film with Brad Pitt in the main storyline, seems very interesting.
Which is all the more surprising, since this is a well-known brilliant production by the world famous Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amour Brutos, O Regresso), and not the one that was nominated for an Oscar. Out of stock now Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.
HISTORY (OU HISTORIAS) BABILLIA
Babylon contains these parallel stories, all interconnected. San Elas:
- As fate would have it, Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) try to save the house during Brown’s vacation. Farm in the middle of the desert, two shepherds (Said Tarchani, Boubker Ait-El-Qaid) brincando atiram na carruagem, and Susan is fatally poisoned.
- Back home in California, my daughter Amelia (Adriana Barraza) is looking after her children at home (Elle Fanning, Nathan Gamble). A Mexican girl who never wants to lose her son’s file at home, he and his mother (Gael García Bernal) quickly smuggle their children across the front lines.
- At the same time, a shocked teenager Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi) from Tokyo is busy contemplating her mother’s suicide.
BRAD PITT MAIS ABATIDO AND AUSTER DO QUE NUNCA
Today we see Brad Pitt as a versatile actor and – if his appearance is appropriate – quite despicable. Then, many years ago, one or two critics were shocked by the fate of the American, who at the time was largely presented as a flawless lover who was apparently allowed to be photographed outside with fishes and old ladies in Babylon. .
In 2006, he thought the gala, about to turn 40, was now ready not only to embrace the onset of age, but to perform as well as it did in front of the halls. Whatever his form in Babel, he skillfully used the early small flaws to bolster his performance and give greater depth to Richard’s character.
Looking at Pitt’s appearance and appearance in subsequent works such as Coward Robert Ford’s The Assassination of Jesse James, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and English Bastards, the assessment is not wrong.
But the example of excellence is not limited to Pitt. At the same time, today we see the breathtaking performances of Rinko Kikuchi (Fogo Circle), who is shown so vulnerable and stubborn in such an act, and Koji Yakusho (Memory of a Geisha), who plays a helpless character. .
Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El-Qaid are equally convincing as two little goat herders. Unfortunately, these latter ones never appear in important films to begin with.
VIRTUOSITY IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
What’s truly impressive about watching Babel for the first time, and even a second time, is the elegance and seeming ease with which the film combines thematic and tonal segments, and how visually it differs so much from Babel in one complex yet a surprisingly coherent image and connection.
All these stories are so complex that one of Valeria is a separate full-fledged film. Combined with Iñárritu’s skill and fantastic imagery, the result here surpasses everything else. This is a great movie with tension and ambition that makes you think about actions and consequences every day.
Enjoying the work in the original language with legends will be greeted with dialogues in five languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese and Sinai).
Already one of the four main locations (a simple abandoned village in the countryside, a small town in San Diego, rural Mexico and a mega-metropolis in Tokyo) was shot by director of photography Rodrigo Prieto (The Secret). Brokeback Mountain, O Lobo de Wall Street) with a unique visual effect in a thermos with a palette of cores and light. Alem said the movements and jumps are instantaneous.
Meanwhile, Iñárritu, with the help of his fighter Guillermo Arriaga (Tres Enterros) and two brilliant editors Douglas Crise (Spring Breakers: Les Garotes Dangerous) and Stephen Mirrione (Beautiful), ensure that he never gets discouraged by the film’s visual and emotional deluge. . you are apparently overloaded or even lost.
I should mentally and fully engage with all the scenarios and make sure that at least the two and a half hour length, which at first glance seems quite generous, is what I want.