Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2007

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Communication is not only a theme in the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu. In Amores Perros, 21 Grams and his newest, Babel, it's also a plot point.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.
0:13.9	It's The Treatment.
0:15.0	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:15.8	You can also hear this show at KCRW.com.
0:18.7	My guest is the director of the films Moro Speros, 21 grams, and his new film is Babel. They're all films about KCCW.com. My guest is the director of the films Moros Peros, 21 grams, and his new film is Babel.
0:23.9	They're all films about communication and that need to communicate so desperately that sometimes
0:28.2	it can break you into.
0:29.6	He is Alejandro Gonzalez in number two.
0:31.5	Alejandro, thanks for coming back to do the show again.
0:33.5	Thank you for inviting me, Elvis.
0:35.4	A pleasure.
0:36.2	I need you to explain Babel for the audiences who may not know much about it yet.
0:40.2	You can just give us a brief synopsis of it.
0:42.8	Well, basically, you know, Babel as the other two films that conforms my trilogy that starts with Amoris Perros and 21 grams,
0:52.6	it's a film that deals with four stories and beyond the
0:57.1	fact that it has political and social comment on it in a global scale, I will say. As the other two,
1:05.6	it's a film of parents and children. It deals with that complex relations between parents and children.
1:14.0	The core of it is this incident that happens to two Moroccan kids that triggered a gun in the mountains of Morocco
1:21.8	and accidentally hit an American woman that is married trying to save her marriage by a very tragic incident
1:32.4	that has happened to them in their personal lives.
1:35.4	And at the same time, the kids of this couple is being taken care by a Mexican nanny in
1:40.8	the United States, and she has to have a big, huge decisions to make.
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