Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I can do... That I can do for you... - Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain (Lost in Translation soundtrack)
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Lost in Translation is definitely my most favorite movie to date. Director Sofia Coppola has truly made a name for herself in this film. The daughter of the famous Francis Ford Copolla who directed the Godfather series, of course, (needless to say, my favorite movies of all time) has come a long way since she did her bit role in the last installment of that masterpiece. She aptly captures the emotions of two people lost in translation amidst the neon-lit and psychedelic Japan...
I have had my lost in translation moments, having to live in different countries for months at a time. I could empathize with the characters who find themselves not only lost in a new country with a different culture and totally unintelligible language, and also, not really knowing where they were at that time... (Reminds me of my own Costa Rica Lost in Translation experience, but I'll save that for another entry :))
Bob seems to be undergoing a mid-life crisis, who no longer understands where his 25-yr marriage is heading.. Charlotte on the other hand, is a young, fresh Ivy league graduate, who has only been married for two years, yet she already feels... stuck. "I don't know who I'm supposed to be"... Who has not said that at one point in their lives?
The two lost souls finally found solace in each other's company, their unlikely friendship getting deeper and deeper as days passed by. They discovered they didn't just share the insomnia that has plagued them since they arrived in Tokyo, but the general loneliness of being somewhere they didn't really get. They sought each other for that human connection that they so needed at that time... In subtle ways, you can see that the longing goes beyond platonic. You can see it in the adoring way Bob looks at Charlotte, or that time Charlotte got jealous when she discovered Bob sleeping with another woman... Unspoken emotions intensified that relationship, and we can feel that when Bob was saying goodbye to Charlotte in a busy Tokyo street.. And for the first time, they shared a kiss filled with such yearning and sadness and spoke volumes of their feelings towards each other. They didn't want to leave each other, but they had to...
What they had was an evanescent moment, that was never meant to be more than that.. Such goodbye leaves a heaviness in the heart, and yet, you just take it and walk away...
This movie is poignant yet has its funny moments.. One of the scenes I found hilarious was when a prostitute came uninvited to Bob's room, demanding him to "LIP my stockings.."... He didn't understand what she meant.. Lick her stockings? Or rip her stockings?
Lastly, this movie has excellent music.. I like Bill Murray's rendition of "More Than This" in a karaoke scene.. If CD's are not so absurdly expensive nowadays, the soundtrack would find its way into my collection.. :)
I feel bad that this was the only movie whose last full show in Powerplant Cinema was NOT packed, because it definitely didn't get those awards for nothing.. =) A must-see!
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