I can analyze stuff in the world - politico-romantico-bullshitico - and I sometimes play that game with art/expression and I will loosely include some mainstream popculture in this - like tv. Yes, I love TV, but yes for most examples, TV is dreadful in its artisry - MOST, not all.

Anyway, I didn't like Lost in Translation when i watched it - after wanting to like it way before even seeing it. Maybe that screwed it up - plus the fact that it was supposed to be a comedy but it was anything but.

The whatever that was built into the movie that was supposed to be "lost in translation", I never really got. I know, I'm obviously not as smart as you. But, after discussions about other films, I was thinking that my main discomfort of the movie, the friendship (or the maybe more) of the two main characters unsettled me. As a friend said, maybe that was a major aspect of the movie. Their discomfort is your discomfort.

And now, I'm thinking that their friendship, though intimiate and intense, was purely platonic - or maybe they were in love, not with each other, but with something the other had (that they're sig. others were presenting as a void). I'm thinking that their relationship and our discomfort was what was "lost in translation".

Am I right?

posted by JY@ 1:35 AM

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