Should you watch Lost in Translation?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Lost in Translation
Film · 2003
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
The sides of Lost in Translation
- An actor and a young woman sleepless in Tokyo
- A hotel bar
- A whisper you never hear
Lost in Translation is good for you if…
- you like a quiet film that drifts like a night without sleep.
- you like a connection that doesn't need a label.
- you like Bill Murray's dry deadpan as a director's long instructions come out as one short line.
Lost in Translation is bad for you if…
- you want things to happen. Very little does.
- you need a story that ties everything up. Bob and Charlotte's week in Tokyo leaves questions open.
About: loneliness · connection · being lost
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