{"id":180,"date":"2007-02-09T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2007-02-09T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T14:22:20","slug":"babel-and-paradise-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/babel-and-paradise-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Babel and Paradise Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babel is a work of absolute genius, but still stands, in my view, the second best film of last year. The best film is a unquestioningly a Palestinian film called &#8216;Paradise Now&#8217;, which was not even recognized by any of the awards announced. That is why awards such as the Oscars will always be suspect..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSo if you get a chance, see Paradise Now.  It is a film about two friends that sign up to go on a suicide bomb attack inside Isreal, and the events that follow.  It is riveting, not in the forced &#8216;hollywoodized&#8217; way of say United 93, but in an absolutely real and raw way.  And the central male lead is far far better than any other performance of the year.<br \/>\nWhich does nto detract from the greatness of Babel.  On whatever level.  However, when I meet the Director of the film, I will ask him what the relavence of the Japanese story was to the two other stories. The japanese story in itself was really engrossing and emotional, but other than a plot device of the Rifle, how were the themes explored in the Moroccon and the Mexican stories related to the Japanese ones ?<br \/>\nAny points of view on this ?<br \/>\nShekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babel is a work of absolute genius, but still stands, in my view, the second best film of last year. The best film is a unquestioningly a Palestinian film called &#8216;Paradise Now&#8217;, which was not even recognized by any of the awards announced. 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