Makes me feel like someone out there is waiting for me.....

Rating: 10/10 (1 August 2011)

Its like a vegan going into a non-vegan hotel or its like a deaf mute person sitting in the midst of a live conversation. That is how it feels when you do go to a new place where you know nothing or understand nothing. The world is happening around you but you do not know or understand what to make of it. At that moment you do want to just find one person - even if it is by a long shot - who understands what or who you are and where you're from. The line "Everyone wants to be found" sums up the whole movie for me. Everybody always needs somebody to love.
Bill Murray finally gets an Oscar nod with a gem of a performance. A man in a mid life crisis is not new to any Hollywood fan. We have indeed seen it time and again, but there is something different and new about this man or is it the fact that he takes us into the real deeper realm of what a lonely man feels like which makes us relate to him better. Be it anything, this character is one I will never forget. The subtly hidden pain or the tall man in between all those average sized Asian people or just watching his own movies dubbed in Japanese, all of these little things go a long way in showing the plight of this man.
Scarlett Johansson being the age at which she was when she did this movie has never looked more beautiful than when she walks in the monastery looking at the newly wed couple. Her face is not beaming radiance or she is not the sunshine, it is just the in-explainable look on her face and the gaze in her eyes which just caught me off guard. It is only a great movie when the actors compliment each other with their performances and Boy do they do it here. She holds her own in such a brilliant way and with such a captivating aura around her.
Sofia Coppola deserves the most special mention of all. Her screenplay is not about two people meeting in a strange land but it is about everyone's life. Everybody, be it a baby or a grand dad, wants to be loved and be in love. Everyone wants to feel a connection and find a reason to be happy. The feeling of every man is an island is wonderfully portrayed here. But the final moments where you see how frustrated people are by being islands and how much a connection of any sort or any time period mean to a person is really heart warming. It is perfect that we never hear the final conversation. It is for the viewer to think about and fill it by our-self. Think about what is the perfect thing to say at that moment is what i ask the people who watch this movie. The direction is absolutely stunning as she shows us what exactly she wants us to see and what she has seen through her eyes and vision.
Magnificentperformances, Scarlett Johansson at her most beautiful, Beautiful locations, Sofia Coppola, the score, Bill Murray and especially for the way it made me feel at the end it is and forever going to be a 10/10.