Move me with your tiny moments on film

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2005)

Tick, tick, tick, you're staring at the clock and it's 1 hour past when you started guessing about the time. You have 7 more glorious hours of insomnia, and there's nothing but terrible cable TV to view, just like home, but you're not home. This time you're on a trip, you're going to be so many people you won't know where you stand, until you realize you're an older man and younger woman, in love, but not destructively.
If you like films to delicately introduce you to moments that are wonderful, this is the film for you, especially if you enjoy the quiet nature of Japanese culture, even better for you if you've been there. If you've ever been a beautiful young woman married to a careless slob, or an older man who has what he needs, but nothing he wants, you're actually one of the lead characters. Watch closely, and the acting will lead you in like a metronome, pushing you quietly along the storyline. Sometimes film resembles the stage, and scenes are much slower than Indiana Jones, you might like getting used to it.
Even if I wasn't in Tokyo, or never had a girlfriend that looked like Scarlett Jojo, I would promise you that Bill Murray would bring me into this film and not let go. This film is a lot like True Romance in its character sketches and its use of location and technology to help tell the story part dialog. A film that shows you a deeper level to yourself from a shotgun blast, or a video game enthusiast sequence can only make you smile, if you get it. If you don't, watch it again in 6 months.
I feel that this film allowed the actors to actually perform past the showboat style lip gloss overacting we're so far and piggishly ready to consume. There are elements of Hollywood production in this piece, but it doesn't overturn the hard work to be personal done by the team. That goes for the audio engineering, lighting, and camera shots, everything is delicious, just because it was carefully made.
Maybe I'm jaded because I am reminiscing about set, sex, and adventure, but then again, I walked from the center of Detroit to the Detroit International Airport just because I argued in the middle of a new romance. I like loud burst and silent moments. This film curtails to my desire to see my life echoed frame by frame. I'm happy for that, and waiting for another film that so captures this late 90's to new millennium Indie film choice of exploring a person more than exploring a Shakespearian style storyline. Long live the people and the story they were in, not just the architecture and the bodiless morals that haunt our brain washing mainstream work in Hollywood. Kudos to the entire team of "Lost in Translation".