Suntory time

I finally saw Lost in Translation. Hurrah for Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray -- they're both really funny. And of course it's always fun to make fun of the Japanese, because we still haven't forgiven them for almost taking over the world in the late 1980s. But I thought: What a strange movie for a young woman to make. Sofia Coppola's only a couple of years older than Scarlett J., yet the movie's mostly from Bill Murray's viewpoint, that of a tired guy having a mid-life crisis. On the other hand, only a rich jet setter would make a movie about two Americans in a foreign city who have such an unlimited amount of money and time that their main problem is existential angst.