Babylon is a 2022 American epic historical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle. The film is a fictional story set in the late 1920s in Hollywood, focusing on the lives of three main characters: a silent film star, a young sound engineer, and a rising starlet. The film features an ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Diego Luna.
: The transition to sound is shown as a "technical torture," where the freedom of silent sets is replaced by the claustrophobic, high-stress demands of microphones and soundproof booths.
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Babylon is an epic tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess. It traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. The film transitions the audience from the chaotic, silent film era to the disciplined, "talkie" era, showing how many careers were destroyed in the process.
, some found the three-hour runtime and graphic excess to be overindulgent. Watching Options In India, the film is available with Hindi audio
stars as Jack Conrad, a silent film superstar struggling to remain relevant as technology changes.