By skyforbes This is not a thread to reignite the endless Babylon debate, but rather to recontextualize it.
Not sure how I ever missed Babylon, but I just finished it on Netflix and was blown away. I was laughing or crying or completely agape the entire 3 hours. It seems it's a very divisive film, and I'm sure I'm going to get excoriated on here for even bringing it up, but I do think it deserves a reconsideration through the lens of 2025 and the age of AI infiltrating film. In fact, when I first saw it, I thought it was new, and I thought the whole thing about silent pictures transitioning to sound was representative of the shift to AI. I wonder if Chazelle saw this coming, or just a coincidence. A big theme of the movie was about making art that stands the test of time, and this is already aging well I feel.