If we had more time ...

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2012)

A famous actor meets a young wife in Tokyo ... that's the story that Sofia Coppola has in "Lost in Translation" (2003), a film that its focus is to find the purpose of life and the pursuit of happiness. It has two main characters played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, we see them both as two lost souls and know each separately, but we realize that they share very personal things between them, mainly loneliness. They are neither good nor bad, they are just two people who are going through a difficult situation. Is a plot tender and sad while linearly develops. All that shows is credible: the characters and everything they do. We see them share their sadness and loneliness, struggle to feel better but not solve their problems.
It is a film that offers an experience through empathy: both the characters with the audience, like the characters between them.
Both performances are excellent, they make great film, as the director dreamed it to be and help that everything is flowing quite naturally, so that the two characters feel real enough. Bill Murray plays a movie star, and despite that, he is not acting like himself, he created the character as such, who is simultaneously happy and sad with his life.
It is a simple story that surprises us because it does not fall into the "clichés" that anyone would imagine, goes its own way (very realistic) and has an ending that the viewer is less expected.
These are two characters who are lost and alone, but when we see them together that's all that matters, regardless of where they are or what they do, because what is striking is the fact that they are happy to see because they are accompanied and because they know that someone cares about them, someone found them.