boring movie for me

Rating: 2/10 (12 July 2005)

Lost in Translation is about Bob, a famous actor, and Charlotte, the wife of a cameraman, who come to Tokyo for work. They stay at the same hotel, and both of them feel loneliness because no one talks with them in English and no one around them understands what they think. They become friendly and spend happy times together. The director of this film is Sofia Coppola. She worked in Tokyo when she was in her twenties and wanted to do move in Tokyo since then.
After I watched this movie, I thought that this portrayed Japanese (who can't speak English) as inferior to the main Anglo-Saxon characters (who can't speak Japanese). Bob and Charlotte don't try to speak Japanese even just a little, but they take it for granted that Japanese should speak English. I think it is a mistaken idea. While staying in Japan, they should speak Japanese, just as when I stay in the USA, I should speak English.
There is some humor in this movie, though. Bob's head above the heads of a group of Japanese men squeezed into a hotel elevator humorously captured the difference in size between Japanese and North Asians. I dislike the film primarily because it is very philosophical and quiet. I prefer more lively movies like Swing Girls.