Lost in Translation

[rm]

Amazingly deft film, that truthfully, I wish I had seen in a theater, alone, when I had something or other I needed to grieve over.

It made me think a lot about when I've travelled alone, and about going to Australia.

But all of that quite aside, I think it's the truest film I've ever seen.

There are things that have happend in my life, when no one who is reading this knew me, and I wrote about them a lot at the time, became a writer, truly, during them, got published over them for the first time. And the truth is, I still don't know really how to talk about them, but it suffices to say that I was once very young, and lonely and unsure, and I thought I loved someone one way, when it was really some other way, and this movie was exactly about the truth I couldn't really see then.

For everything, and lord there was a lot of everything, I still think of him so warmly. Mainly, I think, because I can think of who I was then warmly now too.

I'm just gutted right now.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I completely agree about the film. It was one of the truest things I've ever seen on a screen.

I know what you mean.

[talkshowhost.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw that film, I walked out of the theater feeling blown away, feeling trapped in this other world, spun for me by the direction, the writing, and the amazing performances of both the main characters. So much so that I ran across the street and bought the Soundtrack because I wanted to preserve that feeling of being in this other world, to lose myself in the story and make sure it never let go of me.

When we lost the movie at my theater after 6 or 7 weeks, I took home both posters we'd had-one of Scarlett Johansson with her Umbrella and the crowded Tokyo street in the background, the other Bill Murray sitting on his hotel room bed with the city skyline visible behind him-and the Standee with Peter Travers review, and the banner with both poster images on either side. Scarlett's poster is on my wall, now, right next to my Oceans Eleven poster, and every day I wake up, and look at that image, and get a little....heh.

I get a little Lost, again.

I'm glad it affected you-I didn't want to say anything because you've been talking about watching it, and I've actually devoted a fair amount of time to wondering what you would think. It seems to be one of those movies that people either "get", or they don't. I'm glad to see that you are the former.

Anyway, that's it from me.

[laurel]

I watched the film alone at home in Mitchell, South Dakota. Well, in the home of my grandparents (who I still grieve for, but I was more in the grief then).

I loved the movie and also wish I'd seen it on a big screen (but I don't think it ever played Mitchell). And I cried after it.

The weird thing for me was I kept getting serious deja vu of a sort. There was a time in my life when I did some serious daydreaming about a chance meeting at a hotel somewhere far away; where we might not have had much in common but a connection of some sort was made. Wasn't a daydream at all about sex (not that kind of encounter), it really was more about someplace exotic and an unexpected connection.

So at times I felt like Sofia C. had filmed a dream I had, and made it more fresh and real and better in the process.

Gestalt

[espidre.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking a lot about how I feel about that movie. On one hand the dialogue is awful and appalling in my mind. Moment by moment, scene by scene, I just think yuck. It's like I can't get over it and accept it as a whole.

However there's definitely something about it. For me it's that idea that no matter where in life you are, you do need a little attention and it's not about sex.

"What? No one to lavish attention upon you?"

Okay...I did really like that line.

Re: Gestalt

[rm.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the dialogue awful, but scene by scene I found it exhausting and not in a good way. The payoff is worth it though.

[franny-glass.livejournal.com]

How about that smile Bill Murray shoots her just before he leaves, as he's backing up to walk away after he kisses her, and the baseline to Just Like Honey is starting up? Gutwrenching, beautiful. Definitely watch the deleted scenes. I'm glad most of them were cut, but they're interesting.

Did you laugh when he was on the exercise machine and yelled HELP! ?

I'm so glad you liked it. I really thought you would.

Just saw Garden State today. It's enjoyable. You should see it, if you haven't already. I wouldn't compare it to LIT, but it's smart, and quirky, and heartwarming, and there are some really really good moments.