So masterful I guess the masses are too ignorant to get it

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2004)

By watching like 8 pages of negative comments makes me wonder about the utter ignorance of the human race and their failure to cherish the most basic values of life that this movie portrays.
People expecting a huge comedy or a sex-filled drama will be bored because they want to see what they WANT to see, not what the film is offering them. They expect something big because if features Bill Murray and is directed by the daughter of a famous director. All of this over-hyped expectations are enough to blind people of actually seeing their own hand in front of their face.
Also, the outcries of the film being racist are ludicrous and stupid. The elevator scene which Murray is taller than most of the other Japanese people is racist? Gimme a freaking break. Japanese people acting stupid? FOR YOU WESTENERS PERHAPS, does every person of different culture have to act the same as us westerners? I just wonder if any of you people have actually GONE TO JAPAN and see how is it like.
This movie about friendship within the boundaries of Humanity, Bob and Charlotte are lost souls looking for answers in a foreign town, and when they find each other they start discovering besides each other themselves and finding a new reason to live. Is that so hard to understand? Any typical Hollywood director would've made them lust for each other and screw each other, but that's not what this film is about. It's about the basic thing that makes us human which is "friendship, love and respect," and Sofia Coppola made a hell of a job depicting it.
You people should watch this movie for what it is, not for what you THINK it will bring, and if you do, you'll find a more beautiful and meaningful film than what you could possibly find, because it's within us, and we have lived through this.
Ignore the hype, and ignore the negative comments, Just watch the movie. Period