Lost in translation
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I watched the movie Lost in Translation.
Honestly, if I recommend this movie to people around me, I know most of them won’t even give it a try. They will probably call it boring.
I believe people who like this movie are either lonely or have been lonely at some point in their life. That’s why they can relate to it. Only those people can truly like this movie.
I got completely lost while watching it, lost in thoughts about how lonely people can feel at any stage of life. It doesn’t matter how successful they are, how social they seem, or how peaceful their life looks from the outside. You can never really predict how lonely someone might be on the inside.
The way those two characters connected with each other was just beautiful. It felt so natural. My heart ached when they had to leave. But that’s the truth of life. People who understand you deeply rarely have a permanent place in your life. They come only to make you believe that someone in this world truly understands you, no matter how miserable you feel.
It was beautiful how they understood each other without saying much, without explanations, while their partners had no idea what they were thinking or going through.
I wonder how people we live with 24 by 7 still don’t know what we think or what we really want. Yet somewhere in this world, in some corner, there is a person who just gets us. Maybe it’s because only that person can see inside us.
For most people, we are invisible.
But I think invisible people like me can see other invisible people.
And they make us feel something.
A quiet calm inside.
