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Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Elle Fanning, Koji Yakusho
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Babel
    This movie is about a disaster striking a married couple on their vacation, interweaving four stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico, and Japan. This movie is rated R for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.

    In the desert of Moroccan war is going on in which an American tourist couple's anxiously struggling to survive along with the two Moroccan boys who are involved in an accidental crime and a nanny, who is illegally going into Mexico with two American kids and a Japanese rebel whose father is wanted by the police of Tokyo. In few days they becomes lost in the desert.

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Analysis of Babel
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%



Time/Era of Movie: - present (2000-2010)
Wilderness adventure Yes
Plotlets: - chased/chasing criminals
Terrain - desert

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes

Main Adversary
Identity: - fight for survival

Setting
Desert? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel... - concerned
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