What exactly made "Lost in Translation" a great film- what point did I miss?
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Sarita1 Goes Bollywood
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I missed the same point as well...I didn't get or like that movie at all. Most will say the acting was good, though.
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[SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't seen it] The idea was that these two people have problems with their significant others, but since those problems are unsaid in each relationship, there isn't an acknowledgement, let alone closure. Murray's and O'Hara's characters, therefore, have become sullenly apathetic. Later they meet and find some comfort in one another. When they part in the end, even though you don't know what Murray's character tells O'Hara, it is IMO something like an acknowledgement or "Thanks for being there, I really needed that" type of thing. I liked the movie very much, but I see where you're coming from. It's one of those movies that needs to pick up the pace just a bit.
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I am not into pretentious "film" that ultimately means boring, worthless, etc. I have trouble with a lot of the movies voted post popular by the general public. But I loved this movie. My ongoing quote since this is "I don't know yet actually" when S.J.'s character is describing herself. It's about a person in a quarterlife crisis and a mid-life crisis, and how the crisis seems to dissipate because the most important things in life are... unsaid. Both these people learn to feel the world around them, without being wrapped up in the spoken details. Even trying to extract that kind of meaning from the film takes away from it. It's about feeling your way into the life you want, forming bonds that change you forever, wanting to be found, and how what you see can be an aesthetic miracle.
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