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10 months ago
in What did Bill Murray say at the end of “Lost in Translation”? on Pop Critics
The sweetness and innocence of their relationship is what made that film for me. I liked not knowing what he said to her...having it left to my imagination...something to ponder after it was over. But a few years later I like finally knowing what he actually said and don't find it inappropriate or unfitting to the film.
"I don’t know what it means. I don’t think we ever will. They are both married, so the real guy inside me wants to think that they just return to their lives, but another part of me hopes they end up together.
What do you think? Does it make a difference knowing what he said?"
I don't think what he said makes a difference at all: they were an unlikely match who found themselves alone in a strange city, lost in their own lives but together in this place and condition. Despite feeling alone and disconnected from the world, they were able to make a human connection with each other BECAUSE of this perfect confluence of place, time and respective circumstances. While the romantic and sexual tension between them is palpable (this is just brilliantly acted by both of them) I don't think there's any question that the realization of it just wouldn't make anything better: in their lives, in their marriages, in their relationship with one another...just worse, so they don't go there. They also know that pursuing one another later, in the "real" world would be pointless: it would never work.
So they leave one another with the unspoken understanding that the little thing they shared in that strange place, in that short period of time, was perfect and pure and meaningful to them both...and should be left that way.
I liked that they realized that just because they could didn't mean they should. Adultery would've just cheapened the sweet thing they had together.
Great, great film.
"I don’t know what it means. I don’t think we ever will. They are both married, so the real guy inside me wants to think that they just return to their lives, but another part of me hopes they end up together.
What do you think? Does it make a difference knowing what he said?"
I don't think what he said makes a difference at all: they were an unlikely match who found themselves alone in a strange city, lost in their own lives but together in this place and condition. Despite feeling alone and disconnected from the world, they were able to make a human connection with each other BECAUSE of this perfect confluence of place, time and respective circumstances. While the romantic and sexual tension between them is palpable (this is just brilliantly acted by both of them) I don't think there's any question that the realization of it just wouldn't make anything better: in their lives, in their marriages, in their relationship with one another...just worse, so they don't go there. They also know that pursuing one another later, in the "real" world would be pointless: it would never work.
So they leave one another with the unspoken understanding that the little thing they shared in that strange place, in that short period of time, was perfect and pure and meaningful to them both...and should be left that way.
I liked that they realized that just because they could didn't mean they should. Adultery would've just cheapened the sweet thing they had together.
Great, great film.