Oh my lord, could there be four cuter babies in the world than those featured in the Babies movie?
At first, I thought San Francisco was a bad choice to represent the entire United States. But, the film makers did a good job of focusing the film mostly on transferable scenes that could take place in any major U.S. city and possibly some suburbs. The lack of dialogue, beautiful cinematography and quirk-filled scenes had me giggling and gasping.
The film highlighted some of the big differences between bringing up babies in four very diverse reaches of the globe: Mongolia, Namibia, Tokyo and the U.S. Especially poignant and memorable were the scenes where the mother of Ponijao, in Namibia, cleaned her baby's poop-butt with her bare hand and the Mongolian baby, Bayar, stood amongst a field full of huge elk.
Overall, it was an enjoyable way to spend a sleepy afternoon.
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