Babel

Actors emote very realistically without flashy histrionics, and evoke genuine empathy from the audience. This movie is in parts and weaves different stories together leading to a common thread. Camera work is amazing, feels like its almost a docu-drama. The bone of contention here is that every human being is related as every one of us experiences some form of pain. The individual stories could have been more tightly scripted and I felt some scenes , like the mexican wedding were a bit longer. The emotional grief of the deaf girl, the distance between the American couple, the confusion of the shepherds of Morocco and the dilemma of Mexican nanny, are all indirectly connected in a matter of fact-ly way which is inconsequential to the individual storylines. However their agonies sort of stand out, which make them part of the universal human bond.