Like a dip in the ocean on a cold winters night.

Rating: 9/10 (15 August 2013)

That is how I perceive lost in Translation, a cold, time stopping, gut wrenching moment in time where it is just between you and the water.
But Lost In Translation itself wasn't cold or gut wrenching, it was an experience like no other in cinema, the movie hardly seems to move along; as if stopped in time and allows the 2 main characters to flow freely in this strange, unknown even daunting environment which is Tokyo.
What makes this film work so well? It requires nothing but Bill Murray (Bob Harris) and Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte something) to find a relationship based of each other's loneliness and subsequent choices in life that lead them to a particular moment in life which is ending up in Tokyo to fulfill a certain obligation, neither of which are joyful in doing so. The age difference between the two means there's no silly love chemistry, neurotic breakups or overly-dramatic events occurring throughout the film, which some have found to be particularly boring. But certainly not me, these two characters alone are able to support this film the whole way through with just a bond between each other than thats why Lost in Translation is like no other film.
These two bond so well together throughout the film with experiences so down to earth yet in turn so uplifting when these two characters experience these to occasions together. Charlotte and Bob are both complete strangers in Tokyo, thats what makes the relationship with them work so well, the essence of surprise when not knowing another individual makes the movie that much more better to watch, from one scene to the next rather than learning about Bob or Charlotte we view them learning about one another from their perspectives.
By the end of the film both performances from Johansson and Murray were equaled and satisfying, both showing the glory this film set out to have, and to that, hats off to Sofia Coppola for making such a wonderful film that was driven by effortless timing and character driven emotion.