Lost in Translation
Sep. 5th, 2004 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmAmazingly 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.
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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Date: 2004-09-05 06:50 pm (UTC)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.