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Babel (2006)
A film about the price of life
Babel is IMHO one of the best "big" productions of the past few years. What makes it special is a authenticity in portraying the life in modern world and puts a question-mark to the phenomenon of globalization as we see it. The non-heroic characters are taken from a everyday life, although the events itself are a bit extraordinary, but far from unlikely. The interconnected characters that equally share their importance for the film, range from Moroccan shepherds to adolescent deaf mute daughter of a Japanese businessman. In portraying the whole mental and communication distance between extremely rural Arab desert and hyper urban Tokyo or upper mid-class American versus a Mexican immigrant, the director exposes a whole spectrum of differences and more important the similarities between the characters. The traumatic events seen in the film involve the political (terrorist witch-hunt,immigration) and social (parent-child relations, identity crisis) issues. It is also a story how senselessly tragedies of individuals become a news on the other side of the world and nevertheless questions the different price of a human life in different "worlds". Thumbs up for the actors including the "star" Brad Pitt, who often performs in many stereotypically uninteresting Hollywood blockbusters, but never gives up more challenging roles, making this one no exception.
Partizanska eskadrila (1979)
A partisan Star Wars
Partizanska Eskadrila was an obsession of every kid in early eighties (making me no exception). It tried to follow the contemporary Hollywood action scheme and presented advanced visuals for that time. Partisans and Germans were the inspiration for Yugoslav movie makers for forty years. They colonized nearly every genre, of course action movies were the most convenient ground for them. However after seeing it twenty years later it amazed me how many similarities it features to - the first Star Wars movie: The protagonists: Dalibor (Luke Skwalker ) the young unexperienced partisan fighter who during the film fulfills his ambition to become a pilot and a hero at the end Vuk (Han Solo) a stubborn pilot who steals the German plane and does not fit entirely into the partisan unit (he doubts in partisans, but hate Germans) until the victorious ending. Major Dragan (Obi Wan) the wise but determined squadron leader Major Dragan, who gained much experience in a previous (Spanish civil) war. He even mysteriously flies away at the end of film wounded in a plane, which we don't see being destroyed. The elements of the film story include (just the most evident elements): -stealing something (a plane) from the enemy base what provokes "special measures" from the Germans, whose Vader is impersonated by a merciless SS Klauberg. -infiltrating the enemy airport (death star), causing mayhem and then escaping -the final the attack of the entire squadron with a goal to destroy a "heavily protected" bridge in a canyon where the partisans battle both enemy planes and ground defense and when the negative character is also defeated -The most evident similarity, which looks a bit funny in both films is the ending scene in film where the three heroes got awards and march through the line up of their fellow fighters and admirers. No, wonder the Partizanska Eskadrila was released in 1979 in a time when SW "A new hope" was a widely admired film.