Saturday, December 24, 2005

Lost In Translation

Bored that i have nothing to do and go for the weekend, i went down to CineNow and rent a movie, Lost In Translation.



All i could say that it is not something typical of movies nowadays. It is not an action flick nor is it a love story. It is those movies that comes once in a blue moon and really, it is what movies should be all about.

According to the movie website, the synopsis of the movie:

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi). Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar. This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. Charlotte and Bob venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, and ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities.

Shot entirely on location in Japan, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a valentine to the nature of close friendships and to the city of Tokyo. Ms. Coppola's film, from her original screenplay, contemplates the unexpected connections we make that might not last - yet stay with us forever.

My thought on this movie is that is is pure magicial. The plot is good and it is trying to convey lots and lots of messages. One message is how sometimes, man is lonely, even if you have kids and a happy family and wonderful communication tools, when you are in a foreign land. Another message is that the relationship between a man and a woman may not necessarily be love, but just friends. There are some other messages but it is rather difficult for me to put into words here. But one thing is that this movie celebrates the joys of friendship and how precious it is. Of course not forgetting the wonderful scenary of Tokyo, Japan.