My trip to the movies today was worth it just for one of the previews from an upcoming Focus Feature film. The preview started out with two African babies sitting on the floor of a hut. The babies, who look to be around a year old, are playing with what pass for toys in their culture. One baby tries to take a toy from the other. The baby who wants to keep the toy smacks the other baby. Soon the babies are crying. The sequence went on for way too long and left me guessing what this movie might be about. I thought maybe it was a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy," or the opening to a romantic comedy that is showing how males and females can't get along from the start.
But it turns out the movie is just about babies. In fact, it is called "Babies." It looks to be a documentary of sorts that follows four babies from birth to their first steps - one is from Namibia, one from Tokyo, one from Mongolia and one from Hattie. In addition to the fighting babies, there was a cat using a baby's foot as a play toy and a goat drinking out of a baby's bath water. Hilarious.
The trailer, at least, was filmed almost from the point of view of the babies as though the cameramen were crawling along with them. While the feature I went to see was somewhat lacking in laughs, the Babies trailer had me laughing so hard I had tears coming down my face. And after the movie, when I thought about the trailer I started laughing again. I am not sure how two hours of babies will play out into a feature film, but I might see it just to see those three scenes again.
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