Lost in Translation

Films these days tend to miss that sense of taking you to another place, forgetting about your own routine and anxieties and enabling you to travel along with the movie.

I watched Lost in Translation last night. It took me on that ride.

I enjoyed the atmosphere that it involved me in. It's that feeling of being an outsider in a far away place. While everybody goes on living their lives around you, you can't help but notice how different their concept of living is than yours.

I get that feeling every time I travel. Being able to get me there while sitting on my couch is telling of the success of Sophia Coppola's Oscar winning screenplay and the portrayal of the characters by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanson.

I didn't see Murry and Johanson as actors. They were the characters.

I've been yerning for a good movie like that. In the middle of all the over produced commercial crap being regurgitated into theatres, a movie like Lost in Translation is a welcome respite.