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Babylon

2022 · 189 min

A wild, exhausting, and ultimately moving carnival ride through Hollywood's chaotic transition, mixing excess, tragedy, and love for cinema.

Tagline: Always make a scene.
Overview: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
How it feels: Satirical, melancholic, absurd and dark. Brisk and demanding.
About: Ambition, exploration, identity, corruption
Content: Strong violence, sexual content and language. Mild gore.
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Tone: satiricalstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
exploration
identity
corruption
grief
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong