Watching “Lost in Translation” made me feel both lonely and understood at the same time; it’s a terribly intimate movie, the sort you’d watch on your own.
This movie was pivotal in my life. It was so important that I have not seen it in at least 10 years and I may never watch it again. It was the inspiration for me to visit Tokyo. Which directly started my love of Japan and led to me now to be living my life in Tokyo for the last 11 years. I have had the nights, I have had the wonderful fleeting loves. I have been to most of the places in this movie, even lived in Shinjuku 10 minutes from the hotel featured in this movie. In a way I owe the seed of my current life to Sophia Coppola. But I can never watch the movie again, I don't need to, it has done it's job and transformed my life.
Exactly. A Universal moment in time, you experience it and it passes, no need to relive it but it stays with you, changing you forever ...as it should be.
@@jdee8407 maybe because this movie IS so monumental that it doesn't just pass-maybe it changes your whole life completely-which is what this Commenter is saying. It completely changed her life-- for the better.
Hey buddy, I'm studying Japanese just because of this movie, one of my dreams is to look out the window and seeing Tokyo at night in a hotel room just like Scarlett Johansson's character did in this movie. It will always be one of my favorites movies of all time.
I recently watched the blu-ray for the first time, and it's gorgeous. You know from the start when they drive into Tokoyo that it's going be a visually sumptuous movie.
One summer ago I was working in a pub with a girl who I became very fond of. It was an utterly miserable job, as bartending tends to be, but I’d pick up extra shifts just to work with her because I enjoyed her company and conversation so much. She was a ballerina, and was leaving to go to film school in the autumn, and we would talk about film a lot, and everything else. We’d sit behind the bar when it got quiet and just talk on and on, because I wanted to know everything about her. She told me that Lost in Translation was her favourite film, and I kinda stuck my nose up at that because I’d watched it some years ago and thought it was dull. But I watched it again, with her in mind and it was utterly changed for me. It felt strange how mirrored my situation. I’m far from a romantic person, I’ve been with others and have felt admittedly quite dispassionate, but she really changed something in me. I never told her how I felt because I knew we were both leaving and I felt a fool to ruin a good thing, and I feel I should regret that more, but the memory is so fond to me that I really can’t. The brief collision of our lives meant a lot to me, and I know she is moving on to beautiful places. When we said goodbye and walked our separate ways she looked back across to me, and I don’t think I need anything more than that. Obviously whenever I hear this song I ache a little bit, but it’s in a nice sort of way. I hope she’s well and still dancing.
Currently going through this at my work place.....we connect through intellectual conversation and philosophical topics. I am 24 and he is 42 and married. I don’t want to break up his marriage, not my goal what so ever. However, we care about each other very much and look out for each other.
I don't know why, but when this song kicks in at the very end with Bill Murray driving off, my first thought in the theater was, "Wow. The perfect song for the perfect time." It actually gave me goosebumps.
the movie... I CANT. I can't pin down all of the great things I have to say about this movie. I haven't felt such strong emotions about a film ever.... at the end I was bawling, everything was just so bittersweet and perfect. i wish i could see it as if for the first time over and over again just so i can treasure it all the more.
The fact that you liked this movie despite your wives opinions/objections shows you don't really care about her at all. She's just a fetish object for you. I hope she dumps your ass soon and gets a divorce. Poor lady, with a racist & aggressive husband like yourself. Tsk tsk.
***** Satire? Really? That's everyone's excuse for when they want to be subtly offensive ... "Oh, it's social satire, we're not really making fun of anyone" Haha. I find it interesting, though, that someone literally just said their Japanese wife found this movie offensive. So, clearly, this so called "satire" failed when people are offended and not, say, laughing at this "intelligent" "satirical" comedic masterpiece. Nope. Rather, this movie is a clear example of white American hegemonic practices of degrading/ fetishizing other cultures for their own bemusement. Thank you for your "explanation" but you are clearly blind and not seeing the movie for what it is: racist crap. The movie is, ultimately, about how silly and weird Japanese people/culture is and how white overprivileged American losers are so much better and wiser and oh so hip all this at the expense of Japanese culture/people being basic background props for their existential enlightenment . Hahaha, aren't we WASPS so adorable and existential? Hahahaha, isn't our whiteness and privilege so terrible? Hahahaha 😒🙄
p.s. Coppola lives in Paris? How "multicultural" of her; a white lady lives in Europe!! Stop the presses!! White women lives in France with a plethora of other overprivileged white people!! Let us all applaud her bravery and her "multiculturalism". 😂👏🏼 New York and LA are way more multicultural. I'm laughing at your comment, though. In all honestly, this overprivileged bitch needs to move to the south side of Chicago or East LA. Paris??? Oh my god 😂 😂😂😂😂😂
I watched this when it was first released, as I turned 21. I just had the ultimate experience of feeling like I was watching it again for the first time, now I'm 35. It's even more profoundly refreshing now than it was then, yet so poignant at the same time.
Agreed. What I love about this film is that the feeling it engenders changes at different stages of our lives. I'll be sure to re watch it again in another 10 years time.
When I was 24, living in Toronto, I was offered a job in South korea. After two years of hard work and hard play, starting a life with a wide circle of friends there, I was transferred to NYC and had to move in 3 weeks. Leaving my life there (and a girl), feeling homesick, yet not wanting to leave a vibrant city like Seoul, reminds me of this song and the ending of "lost in translation".
I would trade my entire life to have a week such as these two souls portrayed in this film. I would never feel lonely again having shared those memories…
My father died at age 41 from a heart attack, and I realized I needed to hurry. Instead of waiting to live all over the world and experience romance with Japanese women in Tokyo “Just Like Honey”, I did it before I was old. Now I am old, but my memories are not old. I still feel Tokyo romance, just like honey. I am so happy I did it.
I just saw this movie and... Is incredible: the amount of emotions that have made me feel, the performances(the best of both actors), the music,the colour,etc. I can't help but relate to someone like Charlotte in this moment of my life, and I know I will relate to Bob later in my life.
No, it won't. Thats the point of loneliness - even if you are surrounded by people you still feel alienated, like you are the only person left on earth.
This is a movie I first watched on an airplane flight and it left me feeling both lonely and sad but also comfortable and happy, for the brief relationships the characters had in the film and for the brief relationships I’ve had in my life. Most of these moments are fleeting but they are what make up our lives and create meaning for us, and I think that’s really beautiful.
This has been my favorite song well before Sofia made this film...but, I remember sitting in a theater in Santa Monica on opening night to see Lost in Translation. I was really excited to see this and as the first footage rolled and the music cues up...I was awash with all the right feels. This amazing woman put songs in that means something to her in a story that means something to her...and what’s the more is I feel the same way about these songs and what the film’s emotional center reflects. A profound marriage of the perfect song with a perfect story. Thank you, Sofia.
This song is so beautiful. I can't even count how many times I've listened it. I always remember one of my ex girlfriend when I listen this song. It was our song.. She was stunning. Just Like Honey.
This tale reminds me of this girl I first met when we were in highschool. I still remember this feeling, a feeling I had never felt before in my life. She was just so different from everyone else. Where everyone, at this time in life, was trying to be anything other then their real selfs, she was genuine. Calm, always calm, even in situations where others hurt her and deserved worse then what they got. Just like that. Calm. No one could ever change the way she was, ever. And for some reason we just understood each other. On this other level, beyond that of the people we were currently with, the people who ultimately stood in the way for us to become something more, more then this. This connection. This understanding. This feeling of not being alone for the first time in life, without knowing we had been alone, up until now. We stayed friends, just like this and nothing more, all throughout highschool. At the time I was in a relationship, and had been for quite some time before i met her, with one of her childhood friends. A real trainwreck of a relationship, my first, which lasted way past it's expiration date. She ended up in a relationship with a friend of mine not long after we first met, a relationship that didn't last very long, but nevertheless it ment that our exes would forever make us feel like we couldn't act on these feelings because of this "loyalty" towards our friends, even though we were both hurt very badly by these relationships respectively. We helped each other through some rough times alright. Highschool eventually ended, and just like that you are thrown into the world to fend for yourself, to discover what lies past the walls outside of school and being teenager is no more. Life awaits. Fast forwarding 12 years. 12 years of failed relationships. 12 years of always feeling alone, even with others around. 12 years of not having anyone who would understand my thoughts or feelings, nor taking the time to care about any of it. Over a decade of nothing but meaningless nothings. 12 years went by, until we would finally meet again, and we've been together ever since. We saw this movie for the first time not too long ago, and it really brought back some old memories we now share fondly together. It's a real special kind of feeling that this movie leaves you with, sadness and happiness with a bit of hope at the end, very well done.
20 yrs later i found myself in this situation. I never understood it back then, but now it does all make sense. I am just grateful that the moment happened. And for now, i will love and be loved. Nothing else matters….
I loved this magic, yet very subtle thing between the characters. Definately one of the best movies I've ever seen. Each scene is a pure artwork. Greetings from Poland
I can't believe Scarlett Johansson was only 17 when she made Lost in Translation. I'm the same age as her and definitely would not have been able to express myself on ideas like loneliness and disconnection at that age in any way, shape or form. I probably still couldn't at nearly 40 years of age. The movie came out when I was 19 I think. I was in college at the time and it really struck a chord with me. I felt I was living my life slightly out of sync with my peers but this movie make me realise there's lots of us out there feeling the same way. I always loved the Park Hyatt Hotel as well. It was almost like a character in the movie. I stayed there this year when I finally visited Tokyo. Had a swim in the pool and drinks in the New York Bar. The hotel still looks exactly like it did in the movie!
At the end they are walking away on opposite ways but there is that special smile and shining in their faces as something that remains forever. What an end of what a movie. The perfect symbiose of scenes, of pictures and of sounds!
The magic of meeting someone new that you instantly connect with physically and emotionally. You spend years in love, sharing your most intimate secrets that no one else knows, nor would understand. The message exchanges are endless, and late into the night when you are apart. The times together are mind blowing, but despite trying and risking everything we can't be together! It ends with everyone getting hurt! The memories will never fade, and I always think about you (TJ) and this song.
I absolutely loved this movie. It's definitely in my top five, and this video manages to do what all other trailers and promos have failed to do thus far; capture the essence of the film in a few brief moments. Fantastic work!
Gorgeous movie. Best watched alone when you are feeling low or on a rainy day. Better yet watch it early in the morning so that the sun just starts to come up when the movie is finishing. It's a mood piece and very intimate.
This movie and song always hit home - makes me happy and sad. I lived this scenario - almost identical to the movie - but it was in Hong Kong 20 years ago for a week - should have never let that girl go.
A underestimated Master Piece. Sadly not a movie for everyone because our time is too fast and too overloaded for this sort of fine and soft telling movie.
Yo también quiero ir a Tokio. Marcarme un karaoke con Scarlett Johansson. Vivir una noche loca sumergido en sus ojos como un pez en su pecera. Correr cogido de su mano por sus calles de neón. Bailar con mi camiseta del revés. Acabar la noche nadando con ella en la piscina del ático de un hotel, mientras comienza a amanecer en la capital del Sol naciente y suena Just Like Honey gracias por tu genial vídeo Kasia Gurbiel
LiT touches you so deep you can almost feel unreal after the first time you watch it.But it takes some overdeveloped sensitiveness for the magic to happen, regardless of your gender.
I just ended a long distance relationship on good terms, we both are stressed from work and have no time to put in the effort because of Corona. The last words we exchanged were "I love you". Funny how life works sometimes. Maybe, just maybe our paths cross again...hun...
Scarlett didn't get the credit she deserved for her performance in this movie. Lots of kudos to Bill Murray, but what most people don't know is that she was 17 when she made this movie. Pretty common for 25 yo actors to pretend to be 18 but you never see it the other direction. Yet Scarlett pulls it off and completely holds her own with Murray. She won the BAFTA (British equivalent to the oscars) for best performance by an actress but didn't get nominated by the academy. Shameful.
