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Essay on Lost In Translation
Lost in Translation was released on December 26, 2003 and is written and directed by Sofia Cappola. Its cast includes Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Faris and Giovanni Ribisi.
Lost in Translation is about two perturbed Americans finding support with each other while experiencing estrangement being stuck in Tokyo due to career and personal obligations.
Bob Harris (played by Bill Murray) is an American action-film star in his early fifties who's there to collect an easy two-million-dollar paycheck for shooting a whiskey commercial; and Charlotte (played by Scarlett Johansson) is the young wife of a fashion photographer who's tagged along with her husband. After an initial encounter inside the hotel elevator, where just a courtesy smile is exchanged between the two, they manage to run across each other numerous times that mostly in the hotel bar, where, due to restlessness as well as boredom, they make affable conversation.
Over the next few days, they loosen up considerably, confide in one another their fears, their troubles, and, yes, their hope for a more enriching and rewarding life; and, by darned, in the end they evolve into more emotionally-accessible people than they were before. There's not much more to the film than this, but the writer/director, Sofia Coppola, certainly does not want you to think so as she is hoping that the mere lack of a plot will automatically convince viewers that they are witnessing something truthful.
This is the sad state American film culture has reached; dress something shallow and obvious up with minimalism and art-house artifice, and viewers will go avid at all the nothingness while under the pretense that there must be something genuinely special about it all given its respectful presentation that is bereft of boobies....
