November 13, 2006
Babel
I was disgusted to see that my miserable, execrable, ungrateful assistant has posted a review of the film Babel on the website of that magazine he works for!I haven't heard news this bad since it was announced that Air Supply was to play the 2007 Düsseldorf Oktoberfest! Ach!
I disagree completely with his assessment! We could not have seen the same film!
I found Babel to be a startling and revelatory skein of human interrelatedness as revealed by the common deep-seated longings that mark us as made in the image of one Creator despite cultural and linguistic distinctions. And Brad Pitt was OK. (But what was with the naked teenager?! Put some underpantaloons on when in public, please!)
Now, I ask you, my Lutherans, who are you going to believe? Him—a nincompeep who with every utterance subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge—or me—unspeakable genius that I am?
I thank you.
