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You know that feeling, after watching a movie, of coming out of the theatre and be completely speechless?

I just came back from seeing Babel. I loved it. There's so much emotion in this, in every part of the story. It's a story about people, using as leverage the cultural differences that make us so unlike each other and yet, at the bottom of it, it also shows how we're just the same, contradictions be damned. I adored the little details that made that part of the world remarkable - Japan's flashing colors, Marocco's endless roads, Mexico's iconoclastic core. But haha, of Mexico, they showed the trashiest of the trashy, even when it's all true XD The acting was good!! Unsurprisingly, neither Brad Pitt nor Kate Blanchett were the best in the cast (although there were actually good), those would be the Mexican nanny and the Japanese girl, although Gael Garcia Bernal was great in whatever little time he had onscreen (he BECAME naco. Really. And he actually has a north accent). Both Alejandro Gonzáles Iñarritú and Guillermo Arriaga struggled a bit to find the connections between the characters, and that, along with the too slow pace at the beginning are my only complaints. So it's not as entangled as 21 Grams was (which was impossible, considering the settings). It's also slower, easier to asimilate.

It's kinda sad to see the trilogy close. It was a glorious ending, yes, but kinda sad anyway. I still can't decide whether I like this one or Amores Perros better, because, well, that one's just gut-wrenching, and it made me sob uncontrolably, but this one has such a wide spectre. Mmm. Lovely, even if a little flat, cinematography, and GREAT music by Gustavo Santaolalla.

It also has a subtle-but-there critic against the discrimination in the Mexico-US border. As a Mexican that has crossed the border by car, and has suffered the holier-than-though looks and curled lips, I can honestly say that it's all the truth.

/cinema-whore.

I left Supernatural downloading this morning but I just come back and the download had gone away. *sigh* So I'm trying again, boo. Also, my car has officially been taken over by my friends as a giant locker.

OH! Coahuila is officially the first state in the Mexican Republic to allow gay marriage. GO COAHILA, GO!