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Movie Critic Review:"Babel" (2006) The Massacre of Calculated Coincidences* Tweet “I think there are many political aspects to this film beyond what you'd call America's self-entitlement. I think it's about bigger issues of misunderstanding, paranoia, protectionism. So I think it speaks beyond America on these issues, I think it speaks about the world. And that's what drew me to the film. That's what drew me to what Alejandro was after and made me want to be a part of it.” Brad Pitt talking about ‘Babel’ Brad Pitt on 'Babel' The movie ‘Babel’ 2006 is a call for a deep and sincere 'detante' between different world cultures as a way to hush the global “babble” and usher in an era of true human understanding! Did I say global babble and not Babel?. Well, strangely enough, the two words refer more or less equally to the meaning questioned by this movie although they are not linguistically related. Please do not get confused by thi...

" You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then."  Clarissa Vaughn  Meryl Streep Movie Critic Review: The Hours Tweet   Based on the novel 'The Hours' by Michael Cunningham winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999, The movie by the same name, merits t he attention of movie-lovers not only because it replaces action, the defining attribute of the post-modern motion picture, by intense visual representations of consciousness  and its afflictions, but also by achieving this through evocations of cinematic equivalents to powerful l iterary techniques such as free-flowing i deation (fantasy) and internal monologue.  The novel on which David Hare , the screen writer, has based his ingenious scenario is t...