My babble .......and "Babel"

I love film but for various reasons I don't get to see as much as I'd like to, so if I'm shockingly out of date by saying I watched "Babel" last night, so be it.
(it was a Golden Globe winner, features Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt &Gabriel Garcia Bernal)
It's a brilliant film. Terribly depressing but outstanding. It begins by showing snippets of four stories and as the film progresses we learn that the stories are interconnected. I like that structure, I also liked that the stories themselves and the factors linking them were all totally plausible. I liked that each character spoke his or her own language, (so parts were subtitled) It captured atmosphere beautifully. And I liked Brad Pitt.
I didn't like that it was a story, four stories actually, of pain and tragedy, stories with difficult endings or no endings at all.
I guess the reason why I didn't like it was the same reason I did. (aren't we all full of contradictions?) It's totally true to life.
Don't see it if you are having a bad day, like nice neat closures or want a happy ending.
Do see it if you want to be challenged and engaged, if you like a clever storyline or exotic locations. Or if you like Brad Pitt :)

OOLF: when I wrote my post "Blessings from a Garden" I forgot the flowering Gum out the front.....she's gorgeous.