Get lost with “Lost In Translation”
It has been five years since this won best original screenplay at the oscars. I remember watching it in the year 2004 with my 13 year old mind and asking myself why this film was even nominated any awards at all because it was one of the most boring and dull films I had watched ever. Then I turned 14 years old and realized that I was an ignorant young boy who didn’t accept the film for what it was. The third time I watched it, I fell in love and got lost. I feel that the only way to get the purity, beuaty and atmosphere of this film is if you, the viewer, gets lost with everything that goes on. A film about boredom, time passing and escape, Sofia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation” won’t cater to the general movie going audience, but people that can appreciate it will come out with a smile on their face.
What I loved about the movie is its ability to make the audience laugh with a very candid and casual aura (if this makes sense) My problem is that I felt the film was a little too simple for my tastes and when verteran comedy actor Bill Murray is set into place, he needs to be quirky, and he is in this film, just in a more calm manner than we are used to seeing him. The city of Tokyo comes alive but not in a “Michael Mann style” where it becomes a character, it rather plays as a spin the bottle-like tool of fun for a man in a midlife crisis and a beautiful young girl confused with her life. A film about new friendships through paralleling stories without even speaking sometimes, looks can say everything.
The beauty of this film that strikes me as just simple and pure is the ending. I feel that the ending of this film can be interpreted in so many different angles and each one can be right. Are we seeing a love story? The Beginning of a friendship? The Goodbye to a one-time short serving friendship? The changing of life for two innocent strangers? or a collaboration of all of these things? Sofia Coppola get’s a lot of heat for being too “pretentious” because of being too simple and using an ultra indie soundtrack, but I think this film is spot on. See this movie, but watch it in a mindset of just “chilling”, because that’s what this movie is, but you are still able to get a lot of out of it if you think outside the box.
All I can Say is, SUNTORY TIME!
Cheers.
