03/20/07 Babel is Babel

Since the movie Babel was one of the darlings of the academy awards, with reviews from the artsy sector calling it "brilliant, beautiful and complex", I rented it to see what all the fuss was about. What a waste of $4.00. I agree with the Wall Street Journal film critic who said. "The ultimate poor judgment: the decision to put Babel before the camera defies comprehension in any language." I have to wonder what play this movie would have received had Mel Gibson directed it as it negitively typecast hispanics while promoting acts of animal cruelty. Once again where is good old PETA? Oh they are out pestering farmers, protesting Kentucky Fried chicken and marching to remove animal agriculture from our schools while they give liberal hollywood a free pass. An actor in Babel organizes a group of little children for a chicken catching contests, a little girl brings him the bird she caught then the man graphically wrings the chickens neck and urges the children to laugh and clap at the antics of a bloody headless chicken running amongst them. Not a peep from PETA, nor for that matter all the prima-donnas animal activists clapping away for Babel at the academy awards.