Osakatomebaby

I accidentally forgot to bring home one of the books I needed to do some work...well actually just brought the wrong one. So instead I have to chill out and not do anything productive. Hallelu.

Lost in Translation update: "It opened at just one theater but is slowly expanding to some 70 by July." July?!?! The travesty continues.

From the Asahi Shimbun review:

"All the Japanese are consistently portrayed as foolish. But the movie fails to point out that what appears to be foolish mirrors the viewer's own foolishness."

Um...aren't you doing the same thing by failing to realize part of the point is that the Murray/Johansson characters realize they are foolish? And we're seeing this through their eyes. Um...isn't that part of the point? Outsiders laughing at ourselves, not at you?* Feel free to laugh at us too. Forest/trees?

*Okay except for the "lip" scene which is just not funny.