Finding our selves

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2004)

Lost in translation is a film about two American people, who meet each other in a foreign country  Japan. They become friends and help each other to make their stay as comfortable as possible. The main hero is Bob (Bill Murray), a middle-aged American actor, who arrives to Japan to do a promotion of a Japanese whisky. The person he meets is a young woman Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), who comes to Japan with her husband, who has some work there. All the other roles are unimportant; the whole story is between Bob and Charlotte. They live in the same hotel, they are completely lost in the foreign country  they don't know the language, they cannot understand the culture and the people. They are alone. Bob's wife is at home solving silly problems via phone with him and the husband of Charlotte is at work all the day and he goes away for few days later.
Bob and Charlotte meet in the hotel bar, where they try to forget all their problems; they are bored and have nobody to talk with. They have the same problems at the moment and so they understand each other well and become friends. Charlotte has some Japanese contacts and so they visit a few parties, talking alone in the hotel room after that. Bob is becoming a young guy in the moments with Charlotte, she is starting to think more seriously with Bob, they influence each other. They start to think about their life and about their future in the foreign atmosphere. They spend a few interesting unforgettable days, but they stay only friends nothing more.
I think Lost in translation is a very good film. It is very slow, there is no action, but it is no mistake. There are many very good dialogues, a few jokes with Japanese people trying to speak English and mainly it is a film from a real life  something, that could really happen. People in the cinemas expect Bob and Charlotte to become lovers all the film, but this won't come. And that is a big surprise and a big good of this film. I like it.