I know this makes for two entries in one day, but I just finished "Lost In Translation" and I have to say something about it.
The billions of folks that recommended the film to me had nothing but good things to say, but one common thing was this: "I want to know what Bob said to Charlotte at the end!!!"
Why? Why isn't it simply enough that whatever it is he said, it was the exact right thing she needed to hear at that moment? The words weren't important. Only the connection between those two people at that very moment was. Maybe the director was trying to make a statement about the relationship, the love or whatever it was being built up through this whole film and just how fragile it was to us, the viewers. Trying to write a line for something that powerful would have been impossible. So if they had made his words completely audible, it would have just watered down the entire purpose of the film: the meaning behind the relationship would have been "lost in the translation".
The billions of folks that recommended the film to me had nothing but good things to say, but one common thing was this: "I want to know what Bob said to Charlotte at the end!!!"
Why? Why isn't it simply enough that whatever it is he said, it was the exact right thing she needed to hear at that moment? The words weren't important. Only the connection between those two people at that very moment was. Maybe the director was trying to make a statement about the relationship, the love or whatever it was being built up through this whole film and just how fragile it was to us, the viewers. Trying to write a line for something that powerful would have been impossible. So if they had made his words completely audible, it would have just watered down the entire purpose of the film: the meaning behind the relationship would have been "lost in the translation".
scopitone6248:
You have friends that wanted to know what they said? Are they 10 years old?
peggy:
If you have to explain it, they will never understand for themselves.