One of the strengths of Coppola’s screenplay is that her people and everything they do are believable. Unlike the characters in most movies, they don’t quickly sense they belong together, and they don’t immediately want to be together. Coppola keeps them apart for a noticeably long time. They don’t know they’re the Girl and the Boy. They don’t have a Meet Cute. We grow to know them separately. – Roger Ebert on Lost In Translation
see their sholders dip towards each other…
Lost in Translation. The film explores themes of loneliness, alienation, insomnia, existential ennui (boredom), and culture shock against the backdrop of the modern Japanese cityscape and the uncertain potential and direction of a May-December romance. The tension of wanting and self-doubt was outstanding.