Go see Lost in Translation. I loved this film.
I thought the lack of dialogue was fantastic, the pacing was intentional and really demonstrated what it's like to be a foreigner in a place where you don't speak the language and aren't going to be there for any length of time. I thought it communicated lonliness wonderfully. I thought the lack of obvious
jokes and extraneous narration made it exceptional. It was melancholey without being depressing and the writers did not go the route of throwing them into bed. In fact, it was unbearably
hard to watch them try to connect as two lonely people when neither of them wanted to admit to a stranger that they were lonely people.
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