Lost in Translation
2003 Directed by Sofia Coppola
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Everyone wants to be found.
A fading movie star and a young college graduate form an unlikely bond as they venture through the bustling city life and lights of Tokyo.
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I am always incredibly anxious and wary, about watching films that i hold in such high regard. To the point where my favorite films begin to intimidate me. Scared they may have fell from grace over the years? Yes. Scared my insistence on watching them over and over again will ruin them for myself? Yes. Ebert said that a favorite film is one you can watch over and over again and continuously fall in love with. He was right. I had an itch. After waiting an hour for a bus and then waiting an hour on it yesterday, i decided that when i got home, i would watch my favorite film featuring characters gazing out their taxis and buses at…
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Who doesn't love a movie that starts on Scarlett Johansson's bum?
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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When me and my wife were stood in a queue back in 2003 to buy tickets for Lost In Translation during its theatrical run, we overheard a chap talking to someone else about the film.
"Have you seen it?"
"No."
"Don't. It's bollocks."A little bit disconcerting for me, not because I was worried about its quality. Far from it. I'd already seen it and loved it and talked my wife into seeing it because it was so great. But I'm quite sure the seeds of doubt were planted in her mind after hearing that short but sharp review. Mind you, I'm quite sure said bloke was queuing up to see Cradle 2 The Grave, so if slating one of…
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Απλά, λίγο πριν κάτσω στην ηλεκτρική καρέκλα θα ζητήσω για τελευταίο γεύμα μία κούτα σοκοφρετάκια και να δω το Lost In Translation.
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Sofia Coppola always makes films that create discussion. From the Virgin Suicides low key mood and setting to the melancholic feeling that seem to run through all of her films, they seem to appeal more to a mature audience. Unfairly criticised as boring and slow burning they sometimes are more about mood that substance.
Lost In Translation sees Bill Murray play a Hollywood stalwart who has come to Japan to shoot some whiskey commercials. With so many interlocking themes,Coppola explores fidelity,isolation,breakdowns in communication and culture clashes with subtlety. Murray's hound-dog look perfectly captured his psyche as he goes from one surreal moment of lunacy to another. Lost is the perfect description of Murray's character. Trouble at home and his own…
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The strengths of this movie lie in the subtleties of the character's traits, flaws and quirks. A study of human emotions that range from lonliness, isolation, sadness and finally hope. We all need and have a soul mate out there.
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From the first frame, Lost in Translation caught me off guard. I had a good idea what this film was about, and expected it to open with Bob Harris (Bill Murray) arriving in Japan. So I was quite surprised to meet Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) first, and in quite a provocative way. But it works really well to introduce the idea of this sexual tension between the two characters that's a major driving force in the movie.
Bob's whirlwind arrival in Japan is great, and I love the music used as the taxi zips him through town. Its such a chaotic and rapid series of events. Everything is so frenzied and he's unable to focus on any one thing for more…
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This has got to be one of the most beautiful stories of love ever told. Not only is this visually captivating, but the pure emotion conveyed in the form of a short but powerfully meaningful friendship and the love that it produces is enthrallingly transformative. This movie is not a love story, but a story rather on the force of loneliness matched with the inevitability of feelings and the pain which comes consequentially. It is rather a story about love.
Film doesn't get much more beautiful than this.
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There is so much honesty in this film. It's a true film exercise. It has all the elements you would hope to attain when going to film school. A simple premise, a talented cast, smart writing, the right locations and superb photography. It's just a story, very well told. No elements stand in the way of the story and a story is always better when you let the audience fill in the gaps with their own experiences, dreams and hopes; Sofía Coppola really gives the audience that pleasure.
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Definitely captures the feeling of being in an unfamiliar country
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Bob Harris doesn’t need to talk to be unrevealed. It doesn’t mean he’s a shallow character, but only that at the beginning, in the elevator, his eyes says everything you need to know about him. Sofia Coppola puts elements that need emphasis in its right places, and yet she succeeds in leaving plenty of room to the subtlety of nuances and innuendos that make this picture just fascinating. Bob establishes himself as a character who’s not vulnerable despite being displaced, geographically speaking. I dare to say that bob wouldn’t interact in a different way with japanese people even if he could speak japanese fluently. language, for him (as to the picture’s purposes) is mere formality. “Chatting” with his advertising directors,…
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Of the plentiful things that 'Lost in Translation' is so fantastic for, my favorite is how seamlessly the mood can shift from a light humor to a silent melancholy. In one scene, we'll see Bull Murray engaged in some giggle-worthy situation, and the scene immediately following will depict a tearful Scarlett, reaching out to unconversant ears. Despite these drastic changes, the film still manages to maintain a quiet and cozy atmosphere, and for that I admire 'Lost in Translation' greatly.
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My brother always watched this movie, and I never really gave it a chance until recently, but I really should have given it a chance way, way earlier. It's such a simple, but great film with tons of scenes that had me grabbing my sides from laughing too hard. Overall, this is really a great film to sit back and watch at any time.
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Sofia Coppola always makes films that create discussion. From the Virgin Suicides low key mood and setting to the melancholic feeling that seem to run through all of her films, they seem to appeal more to a mature audience. Unfairly criticised as boring and slow burning they sometimes are more about mood that substance.
Lost In Translation sees Bill Murray play a Hollywood stalwart who has come to Japan to shoot some whiskey commercials. With so many interlocking themes,Coppola explores fidelity,isolation,breakdowns in communication and culture clashes with subtlety. Murray's hound-dog look perfectly captured his psyche as he goes from one surreal moment of lunacy to another. Lost is the perfect description of Murray's character. Trouble at home and his own…