Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later
I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and language is foreign to you, can be challenging. I know lots of Americans–including some Japanese Americans–who’ve either been hesitant to go to Japan, or who’ve gone and struggled to adjust to the oddly familiar, yet unfamiliar, sights, sounds, tastes and culture. It can be discombobulating.
That’s the opening premise of a movie that was released 20 years ago: Lost in Translation.
The film was written and directed by Sofia Coppola, and it was well-received critically and at the box office. Coppola even won an …