...two things. First, before someone jumps me over it, I just found out that Lost in Translation is currently playing in Syracuse. Clever me, I didn't even think to check before assuming that I'd have to go to Ithaca. Fortunately, I was also going down there for the annual Friends of the Library used book sale, otherwise, I'd have done an hour in the dark, rainy cold for nothing.
Second, I forgot to mention what may prove to be my singlemost favorite movie scene of the year. There's a scene in LIT where Murray, Johansson, and some of her Japanese friends go out and karaoke. Murray does a version of the old Brian Ferry/Roxy Music tune "More Than This." It affected me enough that I came home and downloaded it over dial-up. I can still feel the ache as I type this.
Clearly the question is no longer whether I'll see it again in the theater, but when.
i was about to jump on you for that error! i'm so glad you corrected it. but what if i don't want to watch the movie? can't you just tell me how it ends? i like the enjoy the hype of events. the actual events usually suck.
Evil, evil woman. Okay. If you're going to see the movie, don't read the following:
They leave their respective spouses, marry, form a jazz band, and stay in Tokyo forever.
This is the weird thing....I was working on my M.A. while Collin was completing his Ph.D. We became friends and some of my most memorable conversations from that period of my life where had with Collin. I saw LIT last night with a group of people who "didn't get it." I LOVED the movie. Couldn't stop thinking about it, even today. My main thought was..."I really miss Collin. We would have a great conversation about this movie." So I googled him (since we have fallen out of touch) and found this site and sent him an email. Then I started reading his weblog and VOILA! He just saw the movie...and loved it, as I knew he would.
OK, enough of that personal stuff--here's my favorite scene of the movie--Japanese youth singing Karoke (sp?) Sex Pistols song. So, let's see if I have this right...it's a poignant moment where a youth from a rich culture is participating in a form of entertainment which, in many ways, subverts that culture (could Karoke be the ultimate simulacrum? and there were so many scenes of Japanese youth emulating the worst of American pop culture...made me want to apologize for the crap we've exported) and using the song of a British punk band that was rebelling against the establishment and offering anarchy as an alternative....wow. How many cultures collided in that one scene??? It was breathtaking.