Zen style

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2004)

-Slight spoilers are included-
Language is very human, the cultural socializing product through developing civilizations in several thousand years. however, had we communicated well? within a society, even had a same language system, people seem to have no interests in understanding each other.
Lost in Translation sets an isolated middle-aged man, a movie star gone out of fashion, and an young married complete-philosophy-course lady, by lost in translation, slightly find themselves lone and helpless. and Japan, where they are, is an another world to them for the language, and the cultural inconveniences they feel stifling.
Sofia Coppola portrayed these two people's lonesome mind dryly. they don't talk that much. even when she found that he's slept with an another woman, she doesn't seem to feel so upset or jealous. in right after scenes, she doesn't ask him really what happened. instead of it, she's just muttering few things like "the woman and you were growing in the '50s". and they get along with themselves again like she understood what he has done without any conversations that are might needed proper "translations". this is the magical unfolding, avoding banalities.
LiT is a smart movie, has tidily told how he and she gradually share their loneliness, get the sympathy with each other. maybe we are all isolated by the world. but, at least for them, it's not worst I felt.