Reviews

This movie was beautiful but not for the reasons you might think! The majority of reviews I have read, by both layman and film critics were as if the movie is condemning toxic masculinity and how it become the downfall of the man. But quite on the contrary, this film is advocating the get tough or die motto. A message this soft generation madly needs!

It's almost impossible these days to talk over sexual identities without hurting someone's feelings. But all the yelling and nagging aside, there was a time and that's not so long ago that if a man wanted to survive he needed to buck up. Never mind the straight or the offbeat, one has to roll up his sleeves and kill the child inside to let the man be born! And this film is the story of those men.

1925 in the wild wild west. A fluctuating road from hatred to love. The cowboy protagonist catches sight of a simple good-for-nothing lad and despises the weakness in his eyes, yet along the way with all the new changes in the dynamic of his family, he takes a step back remembers his young self, and decides to teach the boy a lesson or two; a mentor in preparation for hard times, and the intimacy that's shaped between the two, which the level of it is subtly mentioned but left to be determined by the viewer alone.

Lastly movie reaches its climax in the very final scene, where we see the rope in the hands of Peter, finally finished. Tho the young boy shall never use it to whip a horse it played a far more important role; a symbol, a memoir of the man who changed him for the better and for the old-time rancher, may that it brought him a sense of happiness and achievement in his last days.

Many fragments of good cinematography and scene writing were found but as an overall whole it didn't tag me along as it should, main protagonist's acting was awfully bad, and the down credit goes as well for the director and his inability to get the right acting out of the cast, highest valued element of the movie was its unsoundtrack, very good.

Spoiler: The key concept and the great reveal of the movie are the video records of the murdered families, but it's not logical for the detective to watch them over and over again throughout the film, I mean it's damn clear if you found similar video records in both of murdered families houses, ain't that a possible connection?

Action movements were edited in a way as if it was intentionally trying to be a comedy! But I shall forgive it considering this movie was made in 1986 and I'm watching it in 2023, 37 years later.

To be honest I didn't get all the hype around this movie the first and even the second time I watched it. Then one day scrolling over the Internet absorbing knowledge about movies and stuff (casual Saturday night! Lol) I came across an article that changed everything.

It was over the various improvs that made their way into the final cut. One of them caught my eyes: In the very last scene of Lost in the Translation, where Bob Harris and Charlotte are having their farewell, Bob reaches to hug Charlotte and says something in her ear, inaudible to the audience tho. It was an unscripted move and a very strong scene. Eventually, they decided to keep that in the movie. After the shot, Sofia Coppola the director goes to Bill Murray and asks "What did you tell in Johansson's ear?" to which Murray replies "You shall never know." with a smile.

Sometimes when I feel lonely and not understood by people around me, I think about that scene, what did he say to her really? Several answers pop up but none am I going to write here because none is more meaningful than not knowing exactly what went down there, the uncertainty makes it more true. The cobalt-blue ocean of endless possibilities each more exciting than the last.

And you don't need any translation for that. :)