Babel is a 2006 international drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros and 21 Grams.
The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the United States. It was an international co-production among companies based in France, Mexico and the US. The film was first screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and was later shown at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Zagreb Film Festival. It opened in selected cities in the United States on October 27, 2006, and went into wide release on November 10, 2006. On January 15, 2007, it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actress and won for Best Original Score.
Babel focuses on four interrelated sets of situations and characters, and many events are revealed out of sequence. The following plot summary has been simplified, and thus does not reflect the exact sequence of the events on screen.
Plot
Babel is in a confused state where he has one foot within reality, and the other within his own mind. As he reflects on the struggles of his life, he realizes that there are others who are worse off than himself, and even more detached from reality.
After the night, there is always the sunrise.
Official music video of the short film
Plot
A spoiled rich girl hatches a plot with her hippie boyfriend and his friends to "kidnap" her so they can get a large ransom from her wealthy father. However, she didn't count on her villainous, money-crazed stepmother to involve herself in the plot, and things begin to go terribly wrong.
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The eyes quite sanely reach to explain
The bruising year of mindset and frame in sevens
Synthesized in perfect form concrete and indifferent
A sudden shift aggravated triggers in their midst so affected by all this
Twist the screw
A chain of serpents passing judgments
Competing races sarin for a prized veiled drug
Charming as a third rail barely pulsed
Prepared a winding sheet the parasites manual read always a toll
Alguien jodió las calles con prohibiciones
de HIGIENE MENTAL
quién separó los colores, fabricó las casillas
que has de ocupar
Babel dividió el planeta
encerró en sus mazmorras el nervio del sur
aquél que cerró las puertas
levantando muros que no saltes tú
Alguien tomó en sus manos las manos de todos
confirmó su ley
¿quién enseño la doctrina sabiduría
que no nos quita la sed?
Babel plantó banderas
cantó los himnos en distintos lenguas
aquel que nos da tabaco , divino apio
que nos entretenga
Babel olvidó que el hombre es el lobo
del hombre que le va a devorar
y ya no espera otra cosa
que te vaya con otra para no regresar
Babel olvidó que el hombre es el lobo
del hombre que le va a devorar
y ya no espera otra cosa
que te vaya con otra para no regresar
Words upon words
stack the tower of Babel
brick on brick on straw on clay
but a whispering stirs
and the structure's unstable
when all the scaffold's stripped away.
We're ever quick to aver
that we are ready and able
but we can't say what's coming, come what may.
By definition self-obsessed
we strive to make ourselves plain
with words that pass the acid test
with passive thought in train.
Words upon words,
fiction, folly and fable,
each pregnant pause a dead giveaway...
ploughing on undeterred
as the sell-bys expire on our labels
though at length we'll have little or nothing to say
it would be too absurd
to spend life all agaze at our navels –
oh, we've got such limited time to go on and explain.
So, running off at the mouth,
we all get carried away
uncertain when it all goes south
if we mean what we say.
Say it was your babel
Say it was my babel
It was my babel
Tell all people
Now you know it's over rolling off her shoulder
You can take a ladder to the shadows and forget
Was it how she kissed you and then dismissed you
Was it purposeful and was it just to hook you in
Hallucinating, chasing, changing, racing
Breaking, hating till you lost it all
Where was your girlfriend, he was not your man
Where you were going, you're on your own
He was quick to burning
He was slow to learning
Though inside your misty
He still kissed her when she cried
And did your best to please her
And then get up and leave her
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Cause I know that time has numbered my days and I go along with everything
You say
But I write home laughing, look at me now, the walls of my town they come
Crumbling down
And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons and I know their choices color
All I've done
But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son I never lived a year better
Spent in love
Cause I know my weakness, know my voice, I'll believe in grace and choice
And I know perhaps my heart is farce but I'll be born without a mask
Like the city that nursed my greed and my pride I stretch my arms into the
I cry Babel, Babel, look at me now, the walls of my town they come
Crumbling down
You ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl as though the sea
Will slip into the cloud
So come down from your mountain and stand where we've been you know our
Breath is weeak and our bodies thin.
Press my nose up to the glass around your heart.
I should have known I was weaker from the start.
You'll build your walls and I'll play my bloody part.
To tear, tear them down.
Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down.
Know my weakness, know my voice.
I believe in grace and choice.
I know that perhaps my heart is farce but I know that I'll be born without