Lost in Translation

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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.

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I know what you mean.

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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.