Babylon
Hello, everyone! Happy belated New Year! I hope you guys had a good Christmas, watched some good classics, and ate a lot. Now that the holiday hubbub is over and things are slowing down, I thought I’d put out another review, this time of a film that’s been on my mind since my brother and I saw it on Christmas day. We’re taking a look at Damien Chazelle’s fourth flick, Babylon . We open on the sun-scorched hills of 1926 Los Angeles as our lead Manny Torres (Diego Calva) is transporting an elephant to a party held at his employer’s – the fictional Kinoscope Studios - mansion. The scene climaxes when Manny and his associates are trying to push it up a hill, during which the incontinent pachyderm defecates all over them. And it’s not just a quick cutaway gag; we as the audience are the entire affair in fascinatingly grotesque detail as DP Linus Sandgren’s beautiful 35 mm cinematography lingers on the moment. And as if that were not enough, we transition to the party its
