Babel (film)

Babel is a 2006 drama film directed by Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multinarrative drama completes Gonzlez Irritus Death Trilogy, following Amores perros andGrams. It is an international coproduction among companies based in the US, Mexico, and France. The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the US.

Babel focuses on four interrelated sets of situations and characters, and many events are revealed out of sequence. The following plot summary has been simplified and thus does not reflect the exact sequence of the events on screen.In a desert in Morocco, Abdullah, a goatherder, buys a .270 Winchester M70 rifle and a box of ammunition from his neighbor Hassan Ibrahim to shoot the jackals that have been preying on his goats. Abdullah gives the rifle to his two young sons, Yussef and Ahmed, and sends them out to tend the herd. Ahmed, the older of the two, criticises Yussef for spying on his sister while she changes her clothes. Doubtful of the rifles purported threekilometer range, they decide to test it out, aiming first at rocks, a moving car on a highway below, and then at a bus carrying Western tourists. Yussefs bullet hits the bus, critically wounding Susan Jones Cate Blanchett, an American woman from San Diego who is traveling with her husband Richard Brad Pitt on vacation. The two boys realize what has happened and flee the scene, hiding the rifle in the hills. ........

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