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This year, each of us, there is a commonality, that is, loneliness, we hold the mobile phone, look at WeChat, there are nearly a thousand contacts, but when we really pick up the mobile phone to find a person to chat about the day, but found that there is no such a suitable person, we will always think about it, and finally silently turn off the mobile phone, enjoy the loneliness alone.
The movie that John is going to introduce to you today is about loneliness, about loneliness, about loss, about searching.
Get lost in Tokyo
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Lost in Tokyo is an American-Japanese comedy romance film released on August 29, 2003, directed by Sophia Coppola and starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray and others. The film tells the story of the extramarital affairs of old men and young women who are difficult to integrate into the local area because of different cultural languages in different places, and who are attracted to each other because of loneliness, and finally find their faith in the infinite possibilities hidden in life, and the film won the 76th Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2004.
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a former movie star from Hollywood, whose once-thriving career is now not improving, and who has less and less warmth between his children and his wife, and this once-honored actor has lost the vitality in the bowl, like a shell, and he has slowly entered the midlife crisis.
One day, he went to Tokyo to take over the whisky advertisement under the arrangement of his agent, and paid $2 million. He was reluctant and full of resistance, but the whole family needed him to make money, because the broker needed him to make money, and Bob had to do it.
After a 12-hour flight, Bob arrived in unfamiliar Tokyo. The nights in Tokyo are colorful, the people of Tokyo are very polite, the advertiser's reception is meticulous, but all this makes him tired and weak, he lies in the hotel's superior suite, thinking that a rest can be relieved, but unfortunately, Bob insomnia...
At this moment, Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), who has the same situation and troubles as Bob, this American chick, lives in the same hotel as Bob, she has just graduated from college, married her boyfriend, accompanied her boyfriend to work in Japan, but her boyfriend is preoccupied with work, and there is no time to accompany her, every day she wakes up alone in the room, so Charlotte is lonely, she can only spend time in a daze in her hotel room and on the streets of Tokyo every day.
Charlotte travels to the streets of Tokyo every day, weaving between the complex trams and subways, from the bustling streets of Harajuku to the secluded Buddhist temples, seeing this country that is completely unfamiliar to her, and even learning flower arrangement driven by curiosity, trying to contact these unlearned cultures with a reluctantly positive attitude. But the feelings in her heart were not shared, and incoherent in the phone call to her friend, the friend had no intention of responding, and Charlotte could only pretend to hang up the phone and cry alone. And Bob's shooting is not smooth, he has to spend every day at the advertising shooting site, unable to communicate with the photographer during the shooting process, resulting in an advertisement to be turned over and over countless times, in the face of the advertising director's yelling and gestures, Bob who does not know Japanese can only endure all this silently, it is torture, but also the defeat of his soul again and again.
Fate had it, two lonely and lonely men, and they met in a bar. Both are Americans, two people at the beginning of the acquaintance politely and slightly embarrassed to chat about each other's work, family, did not cross the line at all, but lonely souls will always meet, because each other can perceive the same feelings in each other, they want to stop talking when they leave. The second time they met, it was at the bar, charlotte couldn't talk to her boyfriend's friends, she saw Bob sitting in the corner, and quietly ran to his side.
- "Have fun?" ”
"I'm plotting a prison break, I'm looking for an accomplice, we're going to escape this bar first, then this hotel, then this city, this country, are you participating?" ”
- "I participate." ”
In a fit of rage, the two of them left the hotel and began to flee for the two of them.
They wandered aimlessly through the bustling streets of Tokyo, communicating with Japanese who didn't speak much English, communicating with Japanese people with crappy English, singing karaoke together, going to see perverted striptease shows together... Because it is two people together, it seems to have more companionship, the world is not so boring, and Tokyo is also very beautiful.
The two release their long-suppressed emotions, Bob seems to no longer have to be the movie star of the past, and Charlotte is no longer a helpless young woman who has been snubbed, they accompany each other and begin to try the beauty and freshness of this world.
The relationship between the two people became more and more intimate, they lay in bed together, eating snacks and watching TV, sharing the same bed but never having sex. Late one night, Bob carried Charlotte to bed. Bob, 53, put 19-year-old Charlotte on a white sheet and gently covered the quilt... Bob reluctantly left the room and hesitantly closed the door.
The relationship between the two does not stay in the flesh, more level, is the spirit is the heart.
After a good time together, it's just a pity that the relationship always ends, and the two people always have to return to reality.
The night before parting, the two sat facing each other in the bar where they first met, with Bob gently holding Charlotte's hand.
- "I don't want to go." ”
" Then don't go, stay here with me."
Both people laughed, they both knew that staying, there will always be a tired day, a little lonely emotion, always have to be alone to solve.
At the end of the film, all Charlotte can do is go to the airport to deliver him, and then plunge into the bustling crowds of Tokyo and continue to be alone. They hugged and whispered, probably making a final farewell, probably thanking them for their company for a while, we don't know, but, to say, it's good.
Many times, we are in doubt and exploration of ourselves, the world is so big, we as a smallest individual, while exploring, we are also feeling the warmth and "cruelty" from this world, loneliness is inevitable, but it is a fortunate thing to find a person in a lonely journey, two people to face the mutilation in the world, get rid of loneliness together, and pursue likes together.
But it's just another self. Wait for the night, greet the day, clean during the day, pray at night, and that's it. This is our respective destiny, this is our own loneliness, and no redemption can be easily destroyed.
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