If Crash was a thoughtful,unflinching look at race relations,then Babel is about how different races misunderstand each other because of their uniqueness and the thousands of languages invented to confuse one another.And not letting them co-exist because they can never understand each other through their uniqueness.

It's a story about how one bullet sends a group of people of different backgrounds into chaos,misunderstanding,and despair.They all collide and their lives are shattered.Because they are unable to understand one another.An American couple is on a trip to Morocco as tourists traveling in a bus.And high on the hills,two boys are learning how to shoot.But one of them accidentally fires a round.Unbeknownst to them,the bullet hits one of the American couple sending her husband to chaos and tension and tragedy as time runs out while desperately trying to get her to a hospital.But he is unable to communicate and express his situation,he is hopeless in this situation.So finally he gets her to a nearby area for help.A Japanese girl is disconnected herself with life and her father is trying to connect with her,a maid is trying to make it to a wedding along with her hot headed Nephew but gets caught up in a tense situation.She is taking caring of the American couples children.The world spreads news that the shooting is a terrorist plot and takes serious actions towards it.

Totally remarkable film-making.It's incendiary.It mixes suspense,drama,thriller and deals with a universal issue so carefully, that a subject this sensitive seems easy to accept.It's another story told in the unique storytelling technique used by Inarritu in his previous films,which sometimes makes it hard to follow.It's as if you're trying to unjumble a puzzle and get the whole picture.It's groundbreaking but flawed.The film could've been told in a straightforward manner and still retained it's powerful impact.It's not a film like Memento,where once it's told in the forward moving time-line,it looses its uniqueness and becomes old fashioned.This is a striking and spot on drama,that transcends into being a taut thriller.It's powerful and told in an unconventional way.And I haven't seen this kind of thought-provoking drama in decades, about us and our differences.In another words,it makes Crash look ordinary.Crash was a misstep.It was totally undeserving of its Best Picture Award.Because Babel is what Crash wasn't and more.