From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 01:57:37 MST
...and yet they did little besides comply with their supposed fates. both
characters would prefer to sit in the hotel bar and look out the window and
wonder why and how life was passing them by. it was akin a story of two
frightened and useless americans devoting their efforts to concentrated
whining and self-pity and then each others sad story instead of actually
living life and doing shit.
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
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From: "Blunderov" <squooker@mweb.co.za>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: <virus@lucifer.com>
Subject: RE: virus: Lost in Translation
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:50:08 +0200
Dr Sebby
Sent: 20 March 2004 04:36 PM
....it was a pretty film in many ways, but having lived in tokyo for 2
yrs,
i cannot understate how painfully boring the two characters were in
their
exploration of all that is tokyo. two people so uninspired to
experience
the vastness of the tokyo cultural landscape sort of made it hard for me
to
endow them with any sort of character depth. as a result, i found them
quite pitiful and hard to lead me to any land of mystery. but if you
havent
been there, perhaps it would be a nice visiit. my opinion of tokyo: it
makes NY look like what it is, and it makes all other cultural meccas
look
painfully unnecessary.
[Blunderov]
While I take your point, it seems to me the two characters, Charlotte
and Bob, were trapped in circumstances that that made them feel
strangers to their own lives and Tokyo made this painfully clear to both
of them.
I envy you your two years there.
Best Regards
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