Babel

I would not believe that it is a Hollywood movie if its director was American.

You are faced with a simple story divided into three sub stories happening in three different countries. It is so wisely mixed up that you can not find the chronology until you reach the ending scenes. Then you notice that the story first begins in an Arab country then in Japan and last in USA-Mexico region.

The first scene catching my eye was the strange look on the tourists face when entering the village, a place that no tourist bothers himself to step in. It is a remarkable shot contrasting the east and west people.

Also, the next point that had my attention was that about more than half hour of crying. Every character in the story cries but each cry is so different and strange. It was the best composition that you can imagine yourself in place of other people with different cultures and trying to feel the same.

I like Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel a lot and one of the reasons is that it is not a single-culture story.