Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Try "Lost in Translation" it's even worse. It was recommended to my > Guatemala travel group by an anthropologist as a good example of culture > shock. I watched it last night and it's awful!! Totally boring movie > about two self-involved boring people who are lost and bored in a foreign > culture. If this is an example of culture shock, then it's an example of > people who should never have left their own culture. I can't believe it's > up for 4 Oscars! It must be Hollywood insider votes because the director > is a Coppola. Oh Tina - you saw the same film my wife did. She left the theatre HATING this film. I felt it was wonderful - dead on. I loved the sense of dislocation, the ambiguous nature of the relationship between the two protagonists - a non-physical affair I suppose you'd say. It really resonated with me. But Jan is still barfing... Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html