so i rewatched Lost In Translation last night (the first time being when it first came out), and it is amazing. the first time i watched it, it didn't strike me as anything particularly special ... but this time, wow! incredible.

i don't really know what i liked so much about it - i can't say exactly, but then i never can, can i? the directing and shooting was gorgeous of course. and maybe because it was wryly funny, and maybe because so many times we find ourselves in situations just like that - talking about things you really want to do and making a joke out of it and of course not doing them, knowing what you really should do but not doing it. i think the wonderful thing about the movie was that so many things between murray's and johansson's characters were unspoken but quietly understood. that was beautiful. and the last scene - just goes to show that for that one brilliant moment we find fulfilment and then we just move on and continue walking. and it's okay to walk away, because the moment's been had.

though personally, if i knew i had found something good, i wouldn't be able to walk away and live my life the same way again. i'd always think back on that moment and compare everything else to it. and i think that's important - the ability to think of things as things by themselves and not to risk comparing but i do that so very often and i must one day learn not to.

i am currently quite in love with scarlett johansson. rewatched In Good Company and as a result felt like rewatching Lost In Translation and now i think i want to watch Girl With A Pearl Earring. there really is something very magnetic about her, something very expressive and wonderful.

i want to watch neil simon's the odd couple.

+ posted by M @ 11:20 PM