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Director's Statement
BABAI depicts a pre-war atmosphere in which people become the playthings of abstruse political powers. They sit, a bomb beneath their asses, and talk about the weather. It is precisely this feeling and its naturalness that I want to capture – without comment or condescension. The film's core is Nori's personal story. I imagine the figure of the father as a centre point around which Nori revolves and through which Nori is introduced to life. His absolute trust is destroyed when the father leaves. From Nori's perspective there is nothing that would justify this separation. Nori fights against it with all his strength. His behaviour is an attempt to maintain his own innocence. The pain he feels from separation is less due to the fact that he has to live without a father and more that he must live without trust.