Rubbish

Rating: 2/10 (3 April 2008)

Thank goodness there are other people on this site who saw through this piece of nonsense. Sofia Coppola doesn't know how to do screen writing. If you want proof, go and see Marie Antoinette: there isn't a story! Most of the major objections to LIT have been raised by other contributors. I'm just going to add one of my own. The screenwriter's instrument is the audience's emotions. The audience is invited to identify with the protagonist(s) in order to experience an emotional journey. In this film, the central characters are the sort of insensitive Americans who don't bother to learn a foreign language when they go abroad: they just talk loudly in English and look at the natives as if they are stupid. If this was a Rambo film, it might be excusable. But this is supposed to be a film for intelligent people. I object deeply to being categorised as the sort of person who could identify with this behaviour. I felt violated by watching it. The whole thing displays spectacular arrogance about foreigners and the only thing it tells us about the human condition is why so many people hate Americans.