In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out--detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief. In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost--lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves--as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love.
Upon watching this the other night, there was this scene in the movie that shows where the nannie has taken two children down to Mexico to her son's wedding. The scene is shot so beautifully and everything is so well done that I was moved to tears.
See I lived 30 miles from the border of Mexico until I was arout 7 or 8 years old. we would go to weddings in Mexico and had friends there that had lives that were so different from ours, and yet so the same. They were so poor and we did not notice. We wre so poor. Well anyways in this scene there is music, dancing, romance and love and all of the kids are running around and the taste and emotions just jump through the screen at you. I truly was taken back there to my childhood and the music they play during the scene is so appropriate.
Did any of you see this?
While watching it I was reminded of going to Saragosa Mexico a few years back while in a bad marriage and I somehow just touched base with a part of me I had cut off. Closed my mind to and avoided. In this world of striving to do better and become more and change things, I forgot the beauty of having nothing. While there there was a magic in the air it seems and we all boded so close, my friends and I. I still cannot speak spanish and they cannot speak english, but I know when I have gotten to hear from them that they feel the same. (translator). I began to take potos and started to change my world the minute I got back from this trip. Including not sitting through being miserable in my marriage anymore. It was a turning point.
Anyhow, in this scene, I could not have even described it better, you will see a lot of influences of my life, rolled into one wonderful scene. I just thought maybe I would share seeing it is now packaged up in this movie so well done. Called Babel. It is at the top of my list now and I think will remain there a long time.
The reviews were mixed by the critics, but my vote is two thumbs up!