Jairam's Jives

By itself, the entire plot and story of Babel probably don't make for really interesting reading. Added to this is the fact that this is probably one movie which I will really find hard to review considering the deftness with which it has been made. For lack of a simpler term to explain the screenplay, I will restrict myself to describing it as 'multi-linear' with a qualification of 'multi-chronological' thrown in. Just to describe these terms further, when I say 'multi-linear' I am referring to a screenplay which does not deal with just one story at one time, and 'multi-chronological' is used to refer to a screenplay which does not necessarily depict events in the order in which they would have probably logically occurred. Having said that, here goes.

Clint Eastwood just refuses to quit making awesome movies, and this is proving to be very difficult for die-hard fans like me. We are stuck in a quandry as to which of his movies we like the best, as each successive one just proves to be just that tad better than his previous ones. In 2004, when I saw "Million Dollar Baby" I thought that this was pretty much the best movie that he could ever make.

Now I had seen and read enough previews, articles and reviews about Australia, that I personally was unable to create any coherent opinion for myself about the movie.