Lost in Translation is a melancholy meditation on loneliness and alienation, so what better movie to start off our Ghostbusters season! Come join us in Tokyo, wander the city, and have adventures. Welcome to Trekabout Presents Lost in Translation.
Trekabout Presents Lost in Translation
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-OK, who are you guys and what did you do with Eric and Richard? I disagree with Eric and Richard much of the time, but I felt on their wavelength for ‘Lost In Translation’. Maybe I need to find time to fit Trekabout Presents into my podcast schedule..
‘Lost In Translation’ was interesting for me because a couple years before it came out, I was traveling to Japan a lot for work. Usually, I was completely busy with work, but, on one trip, I needed to be in Singapore the week before and, rather than fly home between trips, I flew straight to Tokyo and worked out of a hotel room for a week. I spent a lot of time wandering around.
In new places, if it is safe to do so, I like to see how lost I can get, then work out how to get unlost and see what I find along the way. I did not have adventures like in the movie, but, even now, I can’t watch it without feeling how I felt during that week of wandering around Tokyo.
The movie was somewhat hard to watch when it came out because there were similar things going on in my relationships (and my relationship most similar to Bob’s with Charlotte was fading away).
Anyway, thanks for a good discussion.