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Almost Lost in Tokyo


Sushi-king Express: Lost in Translation
Besides realising what gr8 actors Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson are, this movie opened my eyes to the beauty out there.
Not having a job and being able to lounge around an expensive Japanese hotel would also be nice.
From start to finish, this was a beautiful movie.
It was shot with amazing angles and lighting, really picking up on Bill Murray's subtle beauty.
Bill Murray has to be commended for not succumbing to the hollywood requirement that the macho guy always get the girl.
He stars as a famous actor that has landed a lucrative endorsement contact in Japan.
Well, he doesn't speak a word of Japanese nor understand it.
He might as well be on the moon.
He bumps into this beautiful young woman who is married to a workaholic photographer.
Totally unappreciated by her husband and as alone as Murray, they strike up a relationship born of their identical isolations.

What results is screen magic, as the direction, acting and screenwriting are beautifully weaved into a story about friendship, romantic attraction and restraint.
The scenes of the young wife staring wistfully out the window of the hotel harken back to the days when we were all young and beautiful and we were just waiting for some thing good to happen,somebody to take us away from our loneliness.
Slow, and yet entertaining, and as real as it can be, Lost In Translation, deserves every award it has recieved.

"Lost in Translation" gives hope that it's okay to be lost.
Being lost can help revitalize one's life.
It also gives the very true message that sometimes you will find yourself in the least likely of places.
For Bob and Charlotte that was not only in Japan, it was also with each other.
In the end of the film, Bob whispers something inaudible (to the film's audience ) in Charlotte's ear.
It doesn't really matter what was said, it was that something was said, that Bob and Charlotte were both there, that they had met.
That is something neither one of them will ever lose.

【Scarlett Johansson】Lost in Translation【Bill Murray】
Lost In A Foreign Homeland...
Lost in Translation has been making waves recently with various award nominations.
Its a Bill Murray film, and it's his best since "Groundhog Day " .
Its got that girl from Ghost World, and she's very pretty.
And its all about how weird Japan is, which strikes a chord with the Western world's uneasiness about that island nation's culture of extremes.
Because of all this, the cinema was packed when I saw it this afternoon, and it was very clear that most of the popcorn-munching morons were decidedly unprepared for a couple of hours of art-house musings on cultural barriers.

"Lost in Translation" is not a comedy.
Yes it has Bill Murray in it, a man who has looked exactly the same for 20 years and has perfected the art of looking as though he loathes the entire human race.
He has some good one-liners, most notably when facing barely intelligible instructions at a photo-shoot, but basically this is an old-fashioned romance of the kind no one is supposed to make any more.
All sorts of suppressed chemistry rages between Rob and Charlotte, but all he ever does is pat her foot.
Apathy and jet lag bring the two characters together, and the film's suspense hinges on the question of whether either of them has the motivation, not the desire, to move the relationship on a step.

Bill Murray delivers this performance in a sort of insomniac stupor, walking around feigning bemused anonymity even when confronted with the daunting presence of his own picture on a billboard advertisement, in a world where everyone is shorter than he is and they have the shower heads to prove it.
Scarlett Johansson (who is gorgeous, by the way ) is just as sleepless and somnambulant as Charlotte.. When she applies a pink lipstick , she looks like a little girl just faking adulthood until she gets the hang of it.. She's smart, but by her own admission, she's mean.. Vulnerable and depressive, she goes looking for "her soul " in Buddhist temples and cheesy self-help CD's.

And the Truth is, not much Happens.

Except that they meet.
And they have some drinks together.
And they have some laughs together.
And they have some karaoke together (Bill Murray singing Roxy Music's "More Than This" is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen ).
And the city grows up large around them.
And it gets dark and the blinking grid of red transmitter lights lights up, and cars keep driving down the freeways, and all around them are signs, neon, and electric, and in a million colors, all in a language they cant read, and the kids at the arcade do their weird little video game dances.
And they lay awake together, and watch bad Japanese TV together, and in quiet conversations that feel delicate and doomed, they find each other.

To the point where even the familiar things feel foreign.
Like the preposterously annoying ring of a wireless telephone.
Here is an impossible friendship.

But there's beauty in the impossibility.
And there's possibility in it too.
When Bob Harris leans over to whisper something in Charlotte's ear, we in the audience don't hear it.
We have no clue what he says.
All Sofia Coppola gives us are the two actors' reactions to it as they go different ways.


I it when Movies Keep their Biggest Secrets.