In 2003, Sofia Coppola wrote and directed (brilliantly) this comedy drama, with a very good Bill Murray and a young Scarlett Johansson.
He is a middle-aged actor in decline, forced to do TV commercials, a prisoner of his work and his marriage now devoid of stimuli: but she has a degree in philosophy, with few job prospects and has recently become the wife of a young photographer always taken by the commitments and not take up much of her. Loneliness is one of the central themes of the film, and the story of two characters from their troubled marriage in pieces, working from anxiety and the midlife crisis, you meet the bar of a hotel in Tokyo. The city is seen as totally alienated from the two main characters, who are Americans, and the hotel becomes their inner sanctum. Day after day, they find themselves in the lobby discussing their lives, and then groped handling as possible. But in the end both of us, though attracted, they must realize that their Japanese brackets will not be eternal.
Dialogues minimized, Murray cynical humor of a textbook that does more than smile, Lost in Translation is a film infused with a certain cosmic melancholy and pessimism, which simply tells one week of life without dealing with the players before and after (just look at the finale). A film that does not mandate to reflect, as we do not care to entertain, but to live in 2 hours per week of a person aged 50 and one 20 in a foreign city. Lost, in fact, in the translation.
Rating: good movie.
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