Lost in Translation (plot?)

.... I recently bought this movie because I'd heard it had an atmosphere, and I had heard it was supposed to be genius... I liked the atmosphere, it made me think and reflect, and I like that in movies, but this one, either I didn't get it or it didn't have a plot.

Does anyone have any idea what this film was supposed to be about?

originally posted by: nonjudgementalist
.... I recently bought this movie because I'd heard it had an atmosphere, and I had heard it was supposed to be genius... I liked the atmosphere, it made me think and reflect, and I like that in movies, but this one, either I didn't get it or it didn't have a plot.

Does anyone have any idea what this film was supposed to be about?

It's about 101 minutes of the most boring film making I have ever encountered.

And I'm a major movie buff, I love all types of films, from silents on up and Foreign films.

But this film left me feeling flat and trying to stay awake. I will never under stand all the hoopla over this film.

www.imdb.com...

So it worked? The 'translation' was indeed 'lost'... Thats an 'artsy-fartsy' for You...

Have you ever been to a foreign airport, on layover, surrounded by people who didn't speak your language?

That is the situation in this film.

And that a May/December romance blossoms in it.

a reply to: nullafides

Yeah i get it but... Was it just to make money?

I want to know what was written on the script. I mean ... *make characters seems as consistently boring, dull, unintelligent, dimwitted, and drugged up as possible throughout the entire movie* ... I mean, really?

a reply to: nonjudgementalist

Hey, I happen to love the movie.

It's probably best that if you got nothing out of it, to simply let it go.

a reply to: nullafides

What did you love about it?

a reply to: nonjudgementalist

Well, I definitely related to the situation of being "stuck" in a foreign culture. How you get a rare chance to simply observe. Take it all in.

How tedious and boring it can get. How amazingly interesting it can also get.

Plus, I felt it was a good character study in the roles portrayed. Not to mention the view it offered on Japanese culture through western eyes.

I also enjoyed the romance.

a reply to: nullafides

You see I wanted to love the movie too, but I realized about halfway through the film was just literally about a pair of loosers who awkwardly meet, and continue to awkwardly meet and hangout in a five star Tokyo hotel.. I spent the rest of the movie hoping that that wasnt the whole plot of the film right up till the very end, when I thought, have I missed some kind of deep subtely that was interwoven into the script, or was this film really that shallow and disappointing... I felt like id been pranked... Or shilled...

a reply to: nonjudgementalist

I find it curious that you regard them as "losers".

Again, this just didn't seem to be the film for you.

Perhaps a Michael Bay film would be more interesting to you ?

Nevermind... I think I didn't get the film because I wasnt watching it I was watching a separate screenplay in my head. And I was tired.

a reply to: nonjudgementalist

In all honesty, it's a film that you have to simply sink in, and let your body and expectations get into the rhythm of the movie itself.

It is not a roller coaster ride. It is not Jurassic Park.

It is a movie where you sit back and enjoy the anonymous voyeurism of a culture foreign to your own. It is a movie that is slow. Like a slow burn. It doesn't spell things out for you. Nor is it blunt.

But, it is one of my favorite films.

a reply to: nonjudgementalist

Not every movie, book, or other form of entertainment is "for" everyone.

Apparently, this wasn't "for" you.

Accept that, realize your money is gone, and move on.

a reply to: nullafides

You're right I should probably just let it go...

But I'm going to watch it again just in case I'd missed something haha

Just watched it again... A lot more entertaining than the first time.. Probably because I'm not as tired.

originally posted by: nonjudgementalist
a reply to: nullafides

Yeah i get it but... Was it just to make money?

I want to know what was written on the script. I mean ... *make characters seems as consistently boring, dull, unintelligent, dimwitted, and drugged up as possible throughout the entire movie* ... I mean, really?

that's sounds like an awesome movie

a reply to: Layaly

Hahahah... It was a lot a more entertaining the second time around...

a reply to: nonjudgementalist

did u drug urself a little ?
what movie u watching next?

u skipped around my name little hasty so I thought I ll do the same

darn u too btw

originally posted by: Layaly
a reply to: nonjudgementalist

did u drug urself a little ?
what movie u watching next?

u skipped around my name little hasty so I thought I ll do the same

darn u too btw

No, this time I decided not to watch it at 3am.

I'm not watching a other movie for a while. Be damned.

Well, to me it is about life and not feeling that you are fitting in society, trying to adapt to everyones elses expectations and your obligations. Then meeting a soul mate that you connect to. The laguage barrier is a methaphore of feeling alone and having no one understanding your true self and always having to play a role (the advertisements in the movie) of being someone else than who you really are to fit everyones expectations of you.

-MM