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Connor Macgregor Reviews...Lost In Translation
Can Daughter follow the success that his father established ? Well this is her first big film. I have been anticipating this for a while so watching this i had high hopes.
Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?
This film has a great atmosphere. You have these two characters who are in Tokyo, but really don't have a clue where they are, as Tokyo is a place completely different from any other place in the world. Bill Murray is alone and in a way, depressed or fed up. His character is in Tokyo for work, but feels no connection nor excitement for the world around him. Scarlett Johansson is also alone and bored as well as lost in a city she knows barely nothing about. She doesn't have any goals in her life, and when these two characters meet, a connection ensures. They go round Tokyo having fun and trying to escape their normal lives. Its a lovely bond that is created through the film in which they learn to appreicate what little life they have in the world.
I think they do well to show Tokyo as a country ahead of everyone else, but i didn't find it alienating that much. Although i would see why the characters would be lost as it is a country as well as a city that people do feel lost at.
Overall, Great film and really a modern classic. Coppola understands characters as well as directing actors. A Film you should check out if you haven't.
Rating - 99% - A
Connor Macgregor Reviews...Lost In Translation
Can Daughter follow the success that his father established ? Well this is her first big film. I have been anticipating this for a while so watching this i had high hopes.
Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?
This film has a great atmosphere. You have these two characters who are in Tokyo, but really don't have a clue where they are, as Tokyo is a place completely different from any other place in the world. Bill Murray is alone and in a way, depressed or fed up. His character is in Tokyo for work, but feels no connection nor excitement for the world around him. Scarlett Johansson is also alone and bored as well as lost in a city she knows barely nothing about. She doesn't have any goals in her life, and when these two characters meet, a connection ensures. They go round Tokyo having fun and trying to escape their normal lives. Its a lovely bond that is created through the film in which they learn to appreicate what little life they have in the world.
I think they do well to show Tokyo as a country ahead of everyone else, but i didn't find it alienating that much. Although i would see why the characters would be lost as it is a country as well as a city that people do feel lost at.
Overall, Great film and really a modern classic. Coppola understands characters as well as directing actors. A Film you should check out if you haven't.
Rating - 99% - A