Lost in Translation

This film meanders. There isn't anything inherently wrong with that if you know what you are doing. Lost in Translation is just clueless. It has a theme and plot points that are symbolism to that overall theme. The two characters played by Murray and Johansson meet and understand the similarity of their dilemma, but nothing more is delved into between them after that. The characters meet different people and see different sights, but each new encounter acts as the same old symbolism that they feel lost in a different culture. The story meanders but isn't focused on the experience of their journey or its cogitative purpose. It's focused on cheap symbolism that shows the distance between the characters and the culture instead of between themselves. If the film had more to offer about Japan than sideshows on its weirdness, I'd be interested. It doesn't and is just an outstanding bore instead.