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At the end, I could not help but feel underwhelmed and heartache for Charlotte and Harris, both parting ways back into their brooding, exhausting, isolating relationships. They both share emotional trauma, overly human needs for love, validation, respect and admiration, torn from "career" dreams by their outward projections for soul searching, in really trying to heal their shame, mutually blind envy, and ambivalent plans for marital abandonment; which led them into complicated "romantic" relationships.
It does not depict Japanese culture fairly if the viewer critically speculates the settings beyond the lover's plight, and juxtaposes the city, the foreign as an antagonist with xenophobia; are the overjoyed not puzzling to the depressed? Perhaps I'm granting a lot of reasonable doubt for the rude manners Harris experienced vs Charlotte.
I thought sex is portrayed here as a concept that can sell since it's impersonal, i.e. strip club scene, and the sanctity exclusively lives between lovers, i.e. unseen suggested scene; singing can escape from reality, i.e. the bar they met at or the vocalist after the one-night-stand, but it's not so bad when you escape in good company, i.e. the karaoke scene after the party and street roaming; eating out with some friends to share stories or accomplishments can still be more isolating than sparking conversation with a stranger to share silence or appreciate each other's experience, i.e. bar scenes. It's an irrational rebellion of two lonely contrarians throwing bashful fits and enjoying a hayride til they collide and feel accepted. The actual antagonist is the dishonesty that misled them into their wretchedness: deceiving oneself into pursuing a someone else, a relationship or misconstrued "love", for their meaning that is not mutually committed for each others careful admiration, acceptance, and growth.
I believe love should be treated with a sanctity that permits discreet levity or playfulness, and not exalted to one's purpose in life; the film fails demonstrating the latter, but excels in the former. One must learn to love their self before another, but no one is raised with a perfect definition of love, especially as the vulnerability of love makes itself privy to betrayal, and the effects. So, I believe there's a compromise, often people search for their counterparts good qualities that inspire them, and sort of "complete" their overcompensated infantile understanding of love. One could judge society, i.e. culture shock, or a loved one with circumstances happening to them, and conform to plateaus of complacency. But if someone is truly lost, i.e. a stubborn "loved" one is misleading their life, taking back the reigns to meaning and repurposing their life and counteracting their plight to dependency, that breeds helplessness, demands courage. This is what these two lonely contrarians discovered together. If you live with someone who saps your courage, and makes you feel obligated to the extent that your actions are detrimental to your wellbeing, the relationship's toxic. Same goes for career relationships: I believe Harris had a terrible job and manager. I'd bet closure would've been well-received if he had left his job.
It drove me nuts figuring out what Harris whispers to Charlotte during their final farewell:
"Promise me, that the next thing you do, is go up to that man, and tell him the truth." The truth is left open-ended to the viewer as a soft-world, interactive device. I imagine it's that they're unhappy and miss the nonserious, nostalgic one-to-one vulnerable connections or dates, they once had with their younger selves. Harris reveals this in his intimate talk with Charlotte while they're both staring at the ceiling. Appreciation of each other's experiences, hurt and joy, are unequivocally lacking.
This is what I think Harris wants to tell his wife, and has learned from his marriage; the need to impart helpful wisdom before Charlotte sinks as deep and becomes obligatorily-entangled as he has is what goads him out from the limousine, out of his ignorance for love, and shines hope into her quest for love and meaning. He does not "encourage" her or say I love you, he inspires and empowers her purpose, free from love for someone else, to find love for herself, decide and act contrary to her current "lover" for her own wellbeing. If people are storytellers, the easiest story to tell is the truth, especially when love turns awry. Main take-aways: Separate from people with toxic behavior. Don't put all your spiritual eggs into the romance basket. Diversify purpose with fulfilling work. Reaping benefits follows, but a hayride with a stranger may help if you've fallen short of the romance basket rule. Good messages.
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A film for the movie critic type, not everyone's cup of tea but worth a watch if you like the actors.
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LOST IN TRANSLATION, have experienced it
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Lost in Translation (DVD japonés)
Reviewed in Spain on October 14, 2023
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Reviewed in Spain on October 14, 2023
Viene presentada en un digipack con funda, sencillo pero muy elegante, al que le acompaña un folleto. El disco, obviamente, no lleva castellano, solo inglés y japonés. Como curiosidad, recomiendo la experiencia surrealista de ver la película doblada en el idioma nipón, un sinsentido teniendo en cuenta de lo que trata la película en sí misma, pero no deja de ser divertido. Como extras, además de los que lleva ya la versión española, también incluye unas muy breves entrevistas en inglés subtituladas.
Edición muy recomendada para todo amante de esta gran película.
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