Two character, separate from each other in their lifestyle, meet in Tokyo and form an unlikely bond.

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2017)

Everything that can be expressed through a form of language is translated before it is perceived, you need not speak different languages to get involved in the process of translation for we all no matter how similar we are to our acquaintance/friends or anyone we frequently communicate to there is a certain difference in how we perceive things, ideas and emotions. Every time we communicate with someone may it be through words or without we translate what we get from others and translate it to our understanding; sometimes, we receive the same ideas/emotions as what they are expressing to us other times something is lost, or sometimes twisted in translation, even when we are speaking the same language. More than language, expression depends on how we grew up, it depends on our lifestyle, how we are living and how do we see the world; it is exactly like the question "Is the glass half full or half empty?"
In the movie, translation occurs in emotions/feelings more than it occurs in between language. The characters of the movie portrayed by Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson are different to each other even though they come from same culture; they are both lonely yet in different ways, due to different reasons; they both are in desperate need o getting over their loneliness and to hold on to something like a feeling of love or friendship or even affection in the changing life. They travel to Japan, a break from their culture (a way of viewing the world, inclusive of everything physical and abstract), and as I believe, their time in Japan make them feel lost but free from their problems of emotional constraint of life. Their friendship grows so deep within such a short period of time because they are experiencing the emotions that are alike in spectrum; they communicate their stories and their feelings to each other but still they can't comprehend their emotions, fathomable in understanding of the words but intangible in reality, separated by space and time. Their moments of an unexplained familiarity, in a foreign land to the natural perception but an island of individuality in other sense, ends in a causal way; no one is obliged to present to other a gesture of gratitude but it is easy to understand both the character feels an impulse to met before they part like friends who are part of each other's life.
Life returns back to normal, I perceive, after they both part from Japan and return to their homeland but their time together has made a wave in each other's life with a separate meaning for both and different for those who evaluate from outside. The more the language, the more the culture, the more the individual, the more the minds, the more the translation and each time something translate something is lost.