Unspeakable Disaster

Rating: 1/10 (26 April 2013)

I could not watch all of this film - in fact I stuck it out for about 45 minutes before I threw in the hat. I kept saying to myself, "This film won an Oscar for best original screenplay?" I could not believe it. I could not believe that such a banal, vapid, incomprehensible and utterly dull script won an Oscar, but then Hollywood in general has descended into the lower depths of Hades where apparently it will languish forever. Sofia Coppola, of course, is a Coppola and a female and she can make a film. With credentials like those who cares if the film is a blistering bore with a storyline so whacked that trying to make sense of it is utterly impossible. Ms. Coppola knows nothing about life - like virtually all of the young people in Lotus Land - and because she knows nothing about life she couldn't tell the truth even if she were threatened with decapitation. Lost is a mish-mash of stupidity that ends up being blatantly racist toward the Japanese that is not just shocking but profoundly distasteful.