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Lost in Translation
Japan. It's another country ...especially if you're bored out of your mind in a corporate hotel. Sofia Coppola's rivetting tale follows two lost souls - Bill Murray's tarnished film star and Scarlett Johansson's young bored wife - brought together by the allure of Tokyo's neon-drenched otherworldliness.
Answering David Stone: I think you are missing the point. A lot of the whispers are meant to be inaudible. The ambiguity is by a noble design, not failure. It might just be that some find a simplistic film like this one pointless and not to their taste. That doesn't change the fact that this is a well executed film. While most films tend to show explicit relationships, this film is a breath of fresh air, implying the more subtle side of people, sentiments seen very rarely these days.
Keith Cook
Wonderful! Brillant! Great! I mean I was stunned... I watched it not knowing much about the storyline, just that it had Bill Murray in it - who I think is brilliant - but the whole movie just made me love it. If you like the movies you have to see it!
David Stone
This thought-provoking film had this viewer as puzzled as the two main characters. What kind of a relationship was developing between them and how was the tension caused by their parting resolved? The ambiguities were presumably intentional, reflecting the communication difficulties everybody in the film seemed to be having throughout. But I felt a little irritated that the Director was apparently content to leave the audience as much in the dark as the characters. A noble failure, perhaps?
Lucy Balcombe
I thought this film was brilliant. It was funny and kept you hooked.