Everyone's scolding basically focused on: "Somewhere"'s characters, details, tone, and even the long-lens fixed single camera are very similar to "Lost in Translation." It is also a hotel, Park Hyatt in Tokyo has become Chateau Marmont in Beverly Hills; also a half-red star, old Bob in mid-life crisis has become a boring and boring man Johnny; the same is depressing The sadness of being neglected, the newly married Charlotte has become her daughter Cleo; it is also the life of a celebrity who seems to be sitting on the world but is actually empty; it is also the loss and suffocation that wants to cry without tears and scratch the wall . And I like Sofia precisely because this girl is a stubborn stubborn girl who is lost.
There should be few people in this world who will live their lives very well, right? Ordinary people like me will always fall into some kind of loss at some stage of life without any preparation and no means: whether it is a child ignored by their parents, a wife ignored by their husband, or someone who seems to respond to all requests but doesn’t care about it.” "Successful people", or adults with accelerated physical and mental depreciation in the middle of a midlife crisis... What attitude do most people take in the face of all this loss? I don't know, but I guess there aren't many people like Sofia who honestly hold on to it until they find a way.
We can almost see Sofia's growth trajectory from every character in the two films. She is very honest in reproducing the details of life she knows, and she is very honest in revealing the life troubles she has faced, just like her As the daughter of the old Coppola, you can imagine the troubles her father often left her when she was a child, just as she had been a ghost director Spike Jones (his masterpieces include "Becoming John Malkovich", "Adaptation" script", "Home of the Beast"), you can imagine her troubles being ignored by her busy husband. It is a pity that, as the daughter of a prominent family in Hollywood, her stories are always set in the circle of celebrities, which seems to distance her films from the living background of most audiences, and her focus environment is inevitably lost. Some viewers' sense of identity. Still, human emotions are lost and troubled in a similar way.
Although there are many similarities, I don't think "Somewhere" is a remake of "Lost in Translation." Sofia in "Lost in Translation" did not make the director an independent narrator and bystander. You can smell her sighs and tremors from every shot and every set, while Sofia in "Somewhere" became More calm and restrained, the story is told more realistically, without those exaggerations (for example, "Lost in Translation" uses people in a foreign land to highlight the examination of life). "Somewhere" from the very beginning, the Ferrari circling the road has been naked and dry, showing emptiness and loss, Johnny's sloppy jeans and old T, facing the politeness squeezed out by the pole dancer However, she has an uninterested smile, works weakly, and faces her daughter with a little warmth and a little helpless look. Everything is as real as life is, there is no atmosphere to exaggerate, no burden to shake.
This is not a big meal, just a clear soup with little water, but it fits the taste of being lost. When people are full of doubts about their own existence, everything is bland. Until you and this bowl of clear soup with little water come to a dead end, it may be because your face is covered with plaster and you can't move and only breathe. After seeing your "old man makeup", you think that old age is coming, maybe it is because there is a female first-year-old. Cheng watched her make breakfast for herself, dance on ice for herself, cried to herself and told her dad not to leave, probably because of any such accidental incident, you finally got some taste from this bowl of clear soup and water.
Also I think the most important difference between "Somewhere" and "Lost in Translation" is that at the end, despite Johnny crying "I'm nothing" and being rejected by his ex-wife to comfort him, he still left his Ferrari on the road, A person walked out of the road that once looped back and forth and seemed to have no exit.
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