If you read the reviews, Rolling Stone describes the movie that I saw, and the New York Times, discounts what I felt.
Some movies draw you in, they take you into the period or scene and you feel like a bystander or a fly on the wall. Not unlike watching Memoirs of a Geisha. Others, the movies that I really like, strap you into your seat, move you in 6 directions and involve all your senses. Memento was like that and Babel came close.
Memento made me feel as though I had lost my short term memory and Babel felt like Google Earth with sound. Spin the world around and where you place your index finger to halt rotation, magnify it.Then go past the culture, the lanquage, the facial expression, the fear, and straight to the heart of each person. At the source, we're all the same.
If we all spoke from the heart then, would it not be the same language?