Babel (DVD, 2007)

OK, I slept on this one and overnight it lost a star. I can only give this two stars at the most. My biggest problem is that it is very hard to like anybody in the film. The only people I felt sorry for were the little kids and maybe the deaf mute Japanese girl but even she was annoying. I had no sympathy for the parents whatsoever. They are sitting there whining about losing a baby to SIDS and yet you find out that their kids were raised all the way through by their illegal nanny. So, they lose a kid and instead of getting closer to the two kids they do have they head to Africa? Idiotic. They deserved every little bit of suffering they got. What about the kids with the gun? Should I feel sorry for them and their parents? Not really. I don't care what culture you live in, if you have two crazy kids without brains (and the warning signs should have been obvious) you should NOT give them a gun. No sympathy here. The Nanny? Oh, come on. No sympathy whatsoever. She's lived in the United States for 13 years and she doesn't have enough cultural common sense to know that you don't take American kids across the border without permission. I disliked the parents even more after I found that they left their kids not only with a nanny...but an idiot nanny. I really gave this one a chance but after digesting it I realize that it doesn't deserve one