I watched this tonight. Fuck this stupid movie.
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dervy — 6 years ago(June 17, 2019 09:10 AM)
a review i found at imdb expresses my thoughts on LiT
Lost Souls
SECurtisTX29 March 2004
It's been a long time since a movie has made me hurt the way this one did. Perhaps "hurt" isn't the right word. "Ache" is more like it. I could so completely identify with both characters.
Bob is a middle-aged actor caught in a life which has lost its zest and purpose, doing what he "ought" to be doing (making money doing whiskey commercials) instead of doing what he WANTS to do (plays). And then a young, beautiful, intelligent woman enters his orbit. On that level alone, with its mute longing and sexual tension, I can identify with him.
And then there is Charlotte, a student of philosophy seeking herself, her soul lost and adrift. She doesn't know who she is, doesn't know what she wants. Her life is a quest for authenticity of self. And I identify with her because so much of my life I have been seeking the same thing.
This movie isn't for everyone. They will call it boring, lifeless, limp. There are people, I realize, who have never experienced that kind of longing, who had never sought meaning in their lives, and searched for their own lost souls. They live for the here and now, without giving a thought to the spiritual aspects of life.
A friend said introverts will love this movie, extraverts will hate it. I think that is a fair surface assessment. This movie is all about the inner lives of two people whose souls connect for a brief time in an alien city. It is a love affair not of bodies, but of minds and spirits.
Some this movie will make angry. Some this movie will make weep. -
ITTY — 6 years ago(June 17, 2019 04:34 PM)
I didn't like how the movie negatively depicted Japanese culture. Murray's character kept rolling his eyes and acting like it was stupid, but the truth is he's a ****ing moron who can't figure out how to use a StairMaster if it's in a different language.
I officially knew the movie would suck when Murray's character gets into some trouble at a bar with fellow morons and the Japanese bartender takes out a BB gun and starts shooting at them. Murray does this slow Frankenstein-looking run through the street followed by what seemed to be 10 minutes of karaoke. I was like, "Okaaaaaay. Fuck this movie."
Fuck this movie. Fuck this movie.
Fuck
. This. Movie.
The only positive thing about this movie was Scarlett Johansson in her skivvies. Whew, she was looking fine. I would've been lost in something, alright.
— 6 years ago(June 17, 2019 05:22 AM)
