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Babel: Narrative gimmickry can’t save vapid, globally conscious puzzle-film

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“Time perhaps scrambling it’s for Alejandro González Iñárritu to stop his narratives. After making an exciting debut in 2000 with Amores Perros””a movie whose gimmicky Tarantino-esque tinkering with structure seemed fresher en español and grounded in gritty Mexico City location shooting””González Iñárritu apparently decided to devote his feature-film career to telling multipart stories in initially disconnected fragments. In theory, it’s an ambitious gambit: a method that can cut off a viewer’s dependence on narrative bottle-feeding.”

Posted on: October 25th, 2006
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Cultura, Entertainment
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