《通天塔》Babe的l英文影評(píng)

　　The Bible gives us the story of the tower of Babel, the magnificently tall  structure whose height was deemed offensive and impertinent by God. To punish  humanity for its architectural hubris, God then decided to drive a linguistic  wedge between the nations of the world, who until then had spoken the same  tongue. As fables go, this is a particularly effective one in that it both  illustrates a moral -- don‘t think you‘re better than God or you shall be struck  down with all speed -- and also provides a handy answer to those who wondered  why there are so many different languages anyway.

　　In Babel, directed and co-written by Alejandro González Iárritu (21 Grams,  Amores Perros), a clutch of characters from a range of cultures and walks of  life attempt to build a towering film of meaning from coincidence and portent;  unfortunately, in the end it is the viewer who is punished for the filmmaker‘s  hubris.

　　What is one even supposed to make of this film, where so many stories and  moments seem to strain for larger import but end up only as fractured shards of  disconnected drama? It is, after all, a film whose director had the good sense  to cast Cate Blanchett, but the inexcusably bad taste to then give her a role in  which she‘s required to spend the bulk of her screen-time unconscious or barely  coherent. (It‘s sort of like getting Anthony Hopkins for your movie and then  killing him off in the first 30 seconds.)

　　Blanchett plays Susan, a rich California tourist roaming around Morocco  with her husband Richard (a pleasantly grizzled Brad Pitt). As their bus wends  its way through the mountains, a pair of young shepherds are roaming above,  testing a new rifle‘s accuracy with the abandon of immature brothers. The  tragedy of unintended consequences: in a scene that‘s heartstopping for its  matter-of-factness, a bullet smacks through the bus window, seriously wounding  the sleeping Susan.

　　This accident ripples out through Babel‘s ramshackle quartet of stori

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