Not another Babel!

What you're referring to here as 'lazy writing' is known in literature as the 'polyphonic spree' and it's pretty hard to do successfully. Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, using exactly this technique. So, instead of expecting movie-length character arcs, what we get is a set of intertwined short stories.

This film has more in common with Richard Linklater's 'Slacker', where the camera is 'handed' from one character to the next, than the interminable 'Crash'.

And you say you don't want these movies made anymore? You arrogant twerp. In future, do your research first and then don't go and see them.

G.


Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l'imbécile regarde le doigt.

This is definitely a better film than Babel, in my view. It seems to cover more ground in less time.

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Babel and Crash actually had endings, most of them happy, this film just had continuities. The dad was still searching, the brazillian girl went back home, the sex attacker went his way, the guy who had an affair with Rachel Weisz was alone, the muslim doctor and his married ex assistant went their own ways. Only Rachel and Jude and the russian driver and his new friend had a somewhat happy ending.





Ashmi any question