It's better the second time around

Rating: 9/10 (11 March 2007)

Sometimes I watch a movie and I just don't get it. The accolades flowed for this one and I really couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Maybe it is the deadpan way that Bill Murray plays his characters. He just seems so emotionless to me.
I watched it again this morning and it made perfect sense to me. It was an extremely funny movie that showed how things do get Lost in Translation. Not only the obvious cultural differences from the land of my birth and the land of my heritage, but the differences between men and women.
Not only was it a funny film, but it was sweet and tender at the same time and the obstacles were overcome in the end to where both understood each other perfectly.