Hows that for hoity-toity character analysis?
” Lost in Translation is definitely one of those movies that people either love or hate and since we’ve heard a hate and a sort-of-hate review of it, I thought it only fair to throw in a love review. Here’s why I love this movie. The acting is ridiculously good. Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray inhabit these characters so fully and with such restraint and subtlety that you can watch each scene repeatedly and find some new quiet choice they make that really helps you to understand who they are. There isn’t a lot of talking in this movie. I mean, there’s plenty of it. But what’s really going on with and between these two characters is found almost entirely in what they DON’T say. The story of this movie is found in the empty spaces between the music. So, if you don’t look there or don’t see that the empty spaces aren’t actually empty at all, this movie, I must imagine, is annoying and boring. I looked and I liked what I found. You might too. I really enjoyed the parallels drawn between
