Sophia Coppola Discovers Cinematic Voice by Creating Bill Murray Vehicle

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2004)

It is now clear why the movie Virgin Suicides, scribed from the book, was not a great movie. Sofia delivers best when she can create her own landscape, as in LIT. Knowing that Sofia and Spike Jonz split up, and seeing LIT, we know that Charlotte's character embodies both a confused Sofia and her crush on Bill Murray. There is an entire generation of women that look to Bill Murray's movie caricatures as the bomb. This is evident watching and listening to Sofia anytime Bill comes up in some of the behind the scenes reels on the DVD. This is not a bad thing. It creates the heart wrenching humane embellishments conveyed by LIT.
To say Sofia is a visual storyteller is an understatement. Growing up in a movie family may have created this trait and skill. You are 10 to 20 scenes into LIT before you get any dialogue between on-screen characters.
LIT is not for everyone. It is very visual and introspective in all the right ways. Those viewers starved by a real human journey and experience will enjoy.