Has anybody seen the movie Babel? [View All]

[smirkymonkey]

with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchette, Gael Garcia Bernal etc...

I saw it last night, and maybe it was because I had barely eaten all day and had way too much caffeine, but I was an anxious, stressed out mess by the time the movie ended. I found it very tedious and exhausting (way too long, scenes dragged on forever, a lot of trouble caused by carelessness and stupidity.)

There were a lot of interesting themes that are relevant today: Illegal immigration, social alienation, our hair trigger responses to supposed terrorism, etc. and they were presented in such a way so that it put a personal face on all the "bogeymen" out there, but there were also a lot of things that bothered me in the film as well.

What did you think?