Movie Babel - Universal angst

Alejandro González Iñárritu

I now want to see everything from Iñárritu that I haven't already. He makes me proud of Mexican cinema.

Sometimes I feel like mi gente don't look at the global picture, but this proves differently. Written by another Mexican from D.F. Guillermo Arriaga - it shows the human angst of the rich and poor in four countries. Even getting into the mind of this beautiful, mute Japanese girl. She deserved her Oscar nomination for expressing the angst within us all without words but showing it through her face, body and emotions.

Another title besides Universal Angst could be, the wealthy countries/people always win. Despite four incidents of tragedy, it was the two cases where the wealthy came out a bit ahead, whereas the poor lost even more. Not only was it the poorest, but the two most kind and poor characters lost everything. To me this is key in Mexican cinema.