Babel

I just finished watching "Babel". It seems I have a lot to think about so I'm not going to say much except to recommend you see it.

I loved Martin Scorcese's "The Departed", and I'm happy that he's finally received the Best Director Oscar. However after seeing Babel it's hard to know what the Academy didn't get that caused them to bypass it for Best Picture. This is one of those films that's hard to describe without sounding like a play-by-play announcer doing a book report. It's an entirely emotional, deeply poetic experience, an unfaltering fable of a picture. Beautiful, beautiful stuff – but overwhelmingly sad. Just like life.