Babel's Themes

The film Babel portrays both the lyrical and the grotesque literary elements in its contrast of interpersonal war/war/peacetime and self-perfection via education and training. The lyrical element of the movie centers on the deep emotion evoked by the scene in which Brad Pitt's character desperately tries to save his wounded wife, and the one in

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