SYNOPSIS
Los Angeles des années 1920. Récit d’une ambition démesurée et d’excès les plus fous, BABYLON retrace l’ascension et la chute de différents personnages lors de la création d’Hollywood, une ère de décadence et de dépravation sans limites.
CE QUE J'EN AI PENSE
Babylon évoque la gloire et la décadence, la finitude des ambitions et les rêves brisés, la versatilité du public et la fugacité des modes. Le film suit plusieurs destins fulgurants de leurs débuts, à leur apogée puis leur descente en enfer. Babylon porte un regard ironique sur la société et ses travers, sur l'inconstance des gens, sur la folie des grandeurs, sur l'hypocrisie du monde face aux questions raciales, sur le mépris des classes. Enfin, Babylon est un hommage au cinéma.
SYNOPSIS
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
MY THOUGHTS
Babylon evokes glory and decadence, the finitude of ambitions and shattered dreams, the fickleness of audiences and the transience of fashions. The film follows several dazzling destinies from their beginnings, to their apogee and then their descent into hell. Babylon takes an ironic look at society and its failings, the fickleness of people, the folly of grandeur, the hypocrisy of the world when it comes to racial issues, and the contempt for class. Finally, Babylon is a tribute to the cinema.
The film is peppered with grotesque and sordid scenes that, in my opinion, are unnecessary and deeply unpleasant. Apart from these scenes, which sometimes drag on, I found the rest of the film very interesting. Aesthetically, Babylon is very beautiful. The play of light and colour is very successful. The music, however, is somewhat heady.
I'd say I enjoyed the film as a whole, but there were parts that left me dubious or even put me off.




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