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DVD Review: LOST IN TRANSLATION |
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
“Lost in Translation”
——What do you lose?
According to a Korean TV series, only three things in the world could communicate without language: Food, Art and Sex. I would rather replace Sex
with Love, but since love and relationship should have a healthy
communication, or you might be lost. Even two people can perfectly talk to
each other without any language barrier, their relationship might doesn’t
work eventually. Here’s the thing you may wondered from time to time: Am I
lost in love? The answer in film “Lost in Translation” is no.
Being lost feels like a suddenly arrival at a foreign land alone, just like
the middle-aged old fashion movie star in this film who comes to Japan for
an advertisement shot. I guess that’s why the title of the film in Chinese
is “Lost in Tokyo”, which also shows people in different areas have a
totally different understanding of this film.
To be honest, this is one of the most successful films in 2003, and also in
Scarlett Johansson’s movie career ever. I was firstly attracted by the
poster of the film: a pretty girl holding an umbrella standing in the
middle of a modern city, and behind her exists a big screen with a huge
dinosaur in it. In the first sight, the first line of sentence in the
poster really touched me: Everyone wants to be found.
Lost in love, work or life for a while doesn’t matter. What does
matter is the crisis management of everything that inevitably happened
through your whole life time. What you can’t lose is the passion of life.
In “Lost in Translation”, the girl came to Tokyo with her husband and
found something wrong between them. She always felt lonely and confused in
this unfamiliar city somehow. So did the middle-aged movie star. During the
shot of the AD we mentioned above, he couldn’t even understand what the
photographer said in Japanese. One sleepless night, he went down the hotel
for a drink as usual and… met the girl at the bar. We can’t simply figure
out the special relationship between these two strangers met abroad——had
some chemistry between them or just friendship? But unlike any Hollywood
love movie motions, this film seemed a little black and quiet for those who
love action or romantic movies.
After we’ve seen so many beautiful scenes, nasty phenomenon, or even
weird things, sensitive person like you and me probably feel confused in
anytime, anywhere. Let me quote something from “Lost in Translation”
here: “The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let
things upset you.”
Nothing is easy. Just like the film itself cannot be understood easily, that
’s the point make this film meaningful. What will happen when two
strangers meet in the street? Finally they will walk away contrarily or
just have a friendly kiss? In the end of the movie, the girl and the old
movie star kissed and find their own way to go.
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