Loved it

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2003)

It seems to me that the people that like this film are the people who can relate to the characters. The film did a wonderful job of conveying the feeling of being lost - but I think in a way that only someone who has experienced it can relate. I had mixed emotions about the film, and I can pick apart various scenes that didn't make sense in retrospect... But a month after seeing it, I'm still thinking about it. That, to me, is a great film.
The film could have been set anywhere - but Tokyo symbolizes and amplifies the aspect of being alone and weary. I don't understand people's complaints that the film goes nowhere; To me, that's the appeal of the movie - a bored-with-life feeling, despite the vitality of the city and everything going on around the characters.
I'm amazed that a writer as young as Coppola had the maturity to convey the emotion (or lack of emotion) the way she did.