Babytalk Baby Geniuses Analysis
Why Bob Clark’s Baby Geniuses Should Be Hailed as a Modern Masterpiece What is a masterpiece? One might come to ponder. Cinematically, one might point to films such as Orson Welle’s Citizen Kane, or Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, both of these have, of course, their own personal merits, but might I suggest a different approach, a film oft overlooked: Baby Geniuses. The premise of the film is a simple one, a faculty of scientists have uncovered that babies are born with vast knowledge of the universe, and can communicate through an otherwise undecipherable language, babytalk, which they lose once they reach toddler age and learn regular human speech. At first glance, this appears, of course, ridiculous, especially when exposed