Lost In Translation, written and directed by Sofia Coppola
cast: Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson
The notion of lost has been sophisticatedly explored. It looks like the characters are in a state where things are unidentifiable. Things like marriage, career, incentive, happiness and so on are going on in some way not as they wish--but what their desires are? unclear, obscure, dull... just feel like not present in their current life. The state is difficult to articulate. Amazingly, two persons under such state can understand each other, without translation. The understanding doesn't help to improve the state of lost, but does help to identify their sense of being--being a person in a state of lost, and the state of lost, once understood by another person, becomes easier to be identified.
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One interesting thing in the movie is about the communication between the Japenese director ane the leading actor. It seems that the director talks a lots to the leading actor. However, the interpreter just repeats the same simplest "gist" for the actor - more passion - again and again. Though the leading actor doesn't know actully what should be done, he still has to complete his performance. Such situation makes me think about everyday experiences of mine now.
Living abroad, I lose lots of implications of information around me. Translation in my brain is so fragmental. Yet I still have to react to what others talk to me, and have to make decision based on those information. I am so curious that whether I perceive is what it should be. But anyway, you can't think to much and have to view what you perceive as the truth of the world ... Until someday, you may find you are totally wrong... and what others think about you is also far from what you are...Ha
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