Mood: Disappointed/Melancholy
Currently Listening To: The Vapors - I think I'm turning Japanese.
Lost in Translation is a 2003 comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen. It takes place in Tokyo... blah blah blah..... yawn.
So - Lost in Translation. Released to critical acclaim in all its box offices around the world. Can't say I agree with them. The movie centers around the two failed romances of the two main actors, and shows that it happens around the world. I suppose this fact is supposed to be comforting - that even love can be "Lost in Translation" as well as the directors instructions - which the interpreter brutally slaughters, but being a traditionalist guy - I did the traditionalist guy thing and was disgusted by the sappy love story. The worst part? I normally enjoy romantic comedies, but to be fair, this lies more under the 'dramatic romance' category.
Even the sardonic humor didn't help raise the movie in my sights - even with the 'culture shock' aspect.
In so far about what I liked about the movie - It had Bill Murray, who I'm always glad to see in a movie - but (having gone to Japan myself) there seemed to just be a level of artificiality to the whole Japan itself - even though it was filmed in Japan... *shrug*
The acting itself was great - no complaints there, but in the overall feeling of the movie - they lost me. I admit I liked the directors choice of not including Japanese subtitles.
I may not have been fair enough in this review, but I could not get into it.
Maybe next movie.
Until Next time.
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2 comments:
I think your comments are fair, supported, but it surprises me that you like romantic comedies and didn't like this one. There were some very funny cross cultural moments, don't you think? I like the randomness of the coming together of these characters and how meaning was found respectively for the characters. I adore both actors however, and that's always a bias. I think your comment on having been to Japan and found the depiction false is a good one.
I agree - the movie made me not as happy as it apparently made the rest of the world. I also have to say that I don't think I would call it a sappy love story, because it's not, it's very nontraditional and... not like those other sappy love stories where they FALL IN LOVE and then FIGHT and then GET BACK TOGETHER. it was more like, let's fall in love even though we're married and then get RIPPED APART HOW TRAGIC. and now that I think of it this way, i think i like it a little more.
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