Lost
In Translation is one of those rare movies that just blew me
away. The set up of the film is not necessarily that unique
(a man and a woman bored in their current marriages, and in
a foreign country, meet in a bar and find some attraction to
each other), but everywhere else it goes after that is all its
own. Everytime it looks like it is headed towards a cliche it
steers around it, which in the end makes the characters all
the more real and the story all the more compelling.
Besides
being a unique love story it is also a hilarious comedy of manners.
From an early shot of Bill Murray riding in an elevator surrounded
by Japanese men to the filming of a whiskey commercial I was
laughing throughout.
If
you get to the end of the movie and don't understand it go check
out Roger Ebert's review at this link:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/09/091201.html
He
perfectly captures what this film is all about.
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