You know how you can watch a Tarantino movie and without being told know who the director was after five minutes (tops)? It's the same way with this director - the amazing and wonderful Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu. He loves to mess with time and sequencing, which makes for a great movie-watching experience piecing together an entire story.This year's Babel, which was unfortunately disappointed several times at the Oscars on Sunday, is his third such piece, and it's amazing. Amores Perros (2000), one of my favorite movies, is also his. On a side note, Babel and AP both feature the most gorgeous man of all time, Gael García Bernal. Between the two films was 21 Grams (2003, for those keeping track), undoubtedly the most shocking (in terms of subject matter) of the trilogy. It is also the one that most mixes up the sequencing.
Out of the three characters' stories, Benicio del Toro's was, I thought, the best, partially because it was the most unpredictable. This opinion also might have been affected by the fact that there were more people involved in his story and therefore more characters to develop. It also was interesting to see what has to be the inspiration for a Spielberg scene in Munich. Towards the end of the movie Eric Bana's character has painful flashbacks about the terrorism while he's going at it with his wife. Benicio del Toro's character does the same thing, but two or three years earlier and done better, if you ask me.
Amores Perros is still my favorite Iñárritu film, but I'm definitely a fan of 21 Grams. It's emotional and riveting, with lots of character development. Also known as a recipe for a Rebekah movie.
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Right on. That whole cast is amazing, but it's Benicio who steals the show for me too.
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