I do hope this movie is an aberration. I pray that this does not start an annoying trend in Hollywood (if it doesnt already exist) - that of Oscar fishing. Movie makers are supposed to just try and create good cinema, and then hope to win awards. They cannot decide that they want Oscar nods, and then start throwing in a mish-mash of suitable elements into a movie.
The storyline is about the terrible situations that ordinary people could get into unknowingly, how such situations could spiral further out of control, and finally, how such situations end up in nothing but tears, despair, and agony. This is the common thread that weaves together the seemingly disparate concurrent events happening in Morocco, Mexico, and Tokyo.
The most annoying parts of the movie are the Tokyo sequences - the shocking MA rated scenes are not even necessary for the storyline and simply seen gratuitous.
Babel is not entirely bad - the cinematography is fabulous and the movie is bolstered by stellar performances by Brad Pitt and Adriana Barraza (who plays the mexican nanny). The director does succeed in keeping us engrossed in the narrative in the beginning - however, somewhere in the middle of the movie, we realize that there is nothing redeeming about to happen. Nothing is going to save the characters from the cesspools that they have fallen into, and that is when we lose hope, both for the characters of the movie, and for ourselves getting our ticket's worth of entertainment.
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