Comments on: Babel http://dionattheflicks.com/2008/01/16/babel/ The cyber-popcorn is real but the butter is fake Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MikeFitz http://dionattheflicks.com/2008/01/16/babel/#comment-32 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:02:38 +0000 http://dionattheflicks.com/2008/01/16/babel/#comment-32 I saw Babel just two weeks ago and I thought it was brilliant, very moving. I did get the theme that we are all interconnected and our planet is becoming smaller. I felt this personally because I’m fortunate to have travelled to each of the locations in the movie. (Except Tokyo, but #2 Son was there last April.)

The other theme I saw was how paranoia engendered by the US war on terror is hurting individual people. The hardworking and honest housekeeper is deported because of a blanket fear of aliens. There were endless delays in deploying a rescue helicopter to the Atlas mountains in Morocco because of fears of terrorists operating in the area, when all along it was just one kid with a rifle.

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