<Articles>From Extraordinary Viewers to the Ordinary: Film Questioning Us

Abstract

We have desire to perfectly analyse a film, observe scenes broken into pieces as evidence to explain all the events and behaviours in the film. The desire implies that we tend to see our own ordinary lives in the same way. The film, Lost in Translation tells us to resist such a worldview. Just as successful communication is not a matter of the precision of direct translation, possible ways of transformation should not be analytically planned and premeditated. The film works as a device not only to tell us how we live our ordinary lives but also to make us sensuously experience them in frustration caused by hiddenness of transformation as in the case of Bob and Charlotte, the two main characters in Lost in Translation.