Lost Lotus

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2009)

If you require a digitally-generated explosion every ten minutes to stay involved in a movie you will despise "Lost In Translation." If you're ready to watch a subtle, down-beat character story then you will fall in love with this beautiful movie. It's the story of a young wife and a fading film actor who meet and bond while stranded in Japan.
Japan might be a metaphor, maybe all of this is metaphor... the movie is a moody tone-poem, and you can allow yourself to exhale and FEEL the characters' feelings: male & female, old & young, famous and anonymous. Bill Murray is brilliantly understated, playing himself, letting you look at the hollow inside the celebrity that we usually choose to ignore. Scarlett Johansson is perfect as the baby girl looking for permission to stop thinking and start living life.
While Anna Faris' Cameron Diaz-clone babbles about reincarnation, Bill avoids Scarlett's sexual temptation but insists on leaving her with his life's wisdom. They're two sides of the same coin, and "Lost In Translation" speaks to anyone who's ever been lonely, or gone soul-searching, or just sometimes find it hard to get to sleep. A gem.
GRADE: A