Goofs for
Babel (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: During the phone call taking place when the bus is leaving, Richard's watch is clean. Before and after, it is covered with blood and grime.
  
  
• Continuity: The tour guide's badge which is around his neck inside the village house disappears when he goes outside.
  
  
• Continuity: Amelia's torn stockings from wandering in the desert repair themselves as she is brought into the immigration office.
  
  

• Continuity: When the Amelia is lost in the desert with the kids, she decides to stop under a tree so the kids can rest. At this moment, one can clearly see that she is barefoot. Once she talks to the boy and starts walking away (leaving the kids behind) one can see that she is wearing shoes.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera shadow on Brad Pitt and the blue car as it passes him behind the stopped bus.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Chieko takes her panties off she walks back up to the table with her friends. In this shot you can see the reflection of the steadicam arm, operator and an assistant in the mirror in the top left area of the screen.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Amelia is in the desert, we can see one of the camera's shadow on the ground.
  
  
• Errors in geography: After the wedding, Amelia, her nephew and the Jones children use the Tecate border crossing to reenter the USA. After fleeing, we are shown a sandy, wide desert where they wander. Actually, the Tecate border crossing is in the mountains, there is no such desert within a reasonable distance on the USA side. What is shown looks like an Arizona border crossing.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the two Japanese cops meet Chieko, the older one says his name is Amano Yoshio, but the subtitles read Amamo Yoshjo.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chieko and Detective Mamiya are out on the balcony, there are no buildings close to hers when he is looking at the view they have from above the 30th floor. Later Chieko is on the balcony, nude, and her father comes to comfort her. As the movie ends, a long shot of their balcony is shown from their balcony's height and there are two buildings, one the same height, and one taller, right next to theirs that were not there earlier.
  
  
• Continuity: When the boys fire the gun from the mountain, the bus on the road is coming towards them, with the front and the RIGHT side of the bus visible to them. Still, the shot hits the bus on the LEFT side, where Susan has been shown leaning towards the window.
  
  

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