Dagmar Versus 1001 Movies: February 2008

Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?

606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.

I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Sunday, 3 February 2008

Babel (2006)

France/USA/Mexico
directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
written by: Guillermo Arriaga
starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza
seen: 3rd February, 2008 - comment: 24th July, 2017

I wasn't that impressed with this film when I first saw it as a rebellious teenager, but I was under the impression that maybe I just don't understand it right and that after some time my understanding will change. Well, it's been ten years and something unprecedented happened: I understand it even less now and it seems that more shallow to me.

I am not able to determine on my own what's this film even about and the way it's shot and presented makes me very unpleasant. One example for all is the obtrusive and tacky Mexican wedding sequence. And the film's soundtrack was very irritating with its poseur emptiness.

The only scene where I felt truly moved occured when the little boy smashed the Winchester rifle.