Lost in Translation

I’m always drawn to personal stories even if it borrows a little from a person’s experience for me it moves me like no other like The 400 Blows and like Mirror by Tarkovsky, but this one even though a little bit more loosely based mainly because all personal experience is conveyed in the Heart of the stories perspective on Japan’s culture and overall setting. I understand it the need for human connection, missing traditional practices that connect you to nature, even the personal experience dramatized for the screen conveyed by the characters I resonate with especially in this film we are all lost, we don’t know what we’re doing and we likely never will and the beauty in accepting no one’s better than each other and we are all lost and searching is very comforting and resonates with me. Especially the lead characters in the film who have a distaste for people who pretend or distract themselves to think they know where they are in life. I more than anything appreciate the realism of the writing and events it captures how I see life personally perfectly. The also perfection of moving away from some big gesture and sexual nature of them dancing around an affair was moving very feminist in a sense and realistic but we can see that from the opening shot I heard was copied from a painting or photograph of some sort but the usage of it to make us relax into Scarlett’s character and feel attached like we are the character experiencing the world of the film around us very viscerally. The two together is reacting around a world that brought them together from a need of connection not for any other reason than guidance and that was beautiful. Amazing performances especially by Bill Murray maybe he understands the character I’m not sure I just know that you can feel every bit of meandering, escapism and regret he portrays.   The cinematography I usually preach against like Timothee Chalamet said in in an interview one time I don’t want a shaky melodrama with lens flares and stuff but I feel in this film it was intentional making some of the best photography finding new inventive angles by frames within frames and distortion. As well as the philosophy of documenting culture lends itself to documentary photography. The static shots or tripod locked ones are very powerful looking at characters through glass reflections or on the middle of blurred objects around them in a sea of unknown portraying the internal struggles. They had a very 80s-90s soundtrack which picks up tone and makes me see scenes in a sense I would have not thought of the scene that way so it was an amplifying or lazy it was an amazing intentional use. Overall such a fantastic film I resonate with as themes and perspectives of the characters.