{"id":4471,"date":"2007-02-02T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2007-02-02T03:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T03:17:00","slug":"babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/babel.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> With <em>Babel<\/em> Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu has established himself in my eyes as one of the most innovative filmmakers of our times. For I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and his longtime writing partner, Guillermo Arriaga, life is not a cakewalk. The basic sensibility running through <em>Love is a Bitch<\/em>, <em>21 Gramms<\/em> and now <em>Babel<\/em> is deep pessimism: at any moment life can turn into a horrible tragedy. <em>Babel<\/em> tries to flesh out that heartbreak is not the special fate of one country or a people but rather the universal human condition. People are struck by tragedy independent of whether they live in the U.S., Morocco, Japan or Mexico, for example. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu keeps you on the edge of your seat because you don\u2019t know how much tragedy will unfold before your eyes. The camera travels back and forth between these four countries and I\u00f1\u00e1rritu surprises you more than once showing you perspectives on everyday life that you have not seen before. The film is heavy, but it is a rewarding experience not to be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Babel Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu has established himself in my eyes as one of the most innovative filmmakers of our times. For I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and his <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4471\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/babel.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"95\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}