AAAAHHHH I THERE'S NOBODY TO TALK TO IN THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD AND SMARTEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHERE EVERYONE'S TAUGHT ENGLISH IN SCHOOL SAVE ME WRINKLY OLD ACTOR MAN
>>217378509Japs can't speak English for shit (not that they ought to be able to, just saying)
>>217378509I took spanish for like 8 years in school and I cant speak it for shit
>>217378509I was in Japan for 5 weeks a decade ago. Barely spoke to anyone while i was there. Was wonderful.
>>217378537Then talk to the English-speaking tourists and teachers and businessmen and diplomats and sailors all over the place
>>217378509Why didn't this dumb bitch go to a sushi bar?
>>217378509>he doesn't know the difference between talking and communicatingbaka
>>217378537Japs should be speaking ONLY English due to their awful behavior and crushing defeat.
>>217378696If she can't do that in the biggest westernized city on earth then she can't do it anywhere
>>217378537This. Its not like some major european city where everyone speaks english, their culture doesn't really feature the language outside class rooms
>>217378831that's a bit the point of the movie, anon
>I must speak but I can't articulate!Many such cases!
>>217378892The movie, not reality
https://youtu.be/XUjAtYQkFm8?si=8afWGBuPscymiV1-
>>217378831>biggest westernized city on earth Fuck all people talk fluent English in Japan, which is surprising because in every other Asian country virtually everyone speaks conversational English.
>>217378509I’ll wear my shoes inside anywhere I want. Japs can take their stupid flip flops and stick them up their ass.
>>217379513It was 2003 not 1603. plenty of japs knew fluent English and there were a bunch of expats from America Canada UK Australia to show the two main characters where to find them. If it was anywhere besides the middle of Tokyo where major international business entertainment education and politics took place, the movie would make sense. How the fuck did Black Rain from 1989 (in Kobe not Tokyo) figure that out but this autistic movie didn't?
>>217379781>doesn't get what affective alienation is about>calls movie autistic
>>217379908If the main characters were able to connect then they would have similar results with all the native English tourists and expats that the movie omitted
>>217380194Bill’s character was an aging movie star. She just didn’t want to hang out with poorfag nobodies.
>>217378613Foreigners in Japan is literally the worst people on Earth, maybe only worse in Thailand
>>217380309They didn't even exist in the movie, there were no poorfag investment bankers or embassy agents or concert tour pop stars to turn her nose at. I'm just saying the real Tokyo wasn't as remote as the movie portrayed it, fuck what academics and statistics say, I mean your feet on the ground reality
>>217380344It was less brown and chinese when the movie came out
>>217378509I've never seen this or "Her" but have picked up that they are related, being inspired by Coppola/Jonze processing their marriage failing.In this view, what stories are they really telling? And separate from their value as films, which tells it "better"?>>217379488>Alone in KyotoAir is great but this reminds me:To-kyo is actually To-kyo-to
>>217378509>EVERYONE'S TAUGHT ENGLISH IN SCHOOLLmao, as if that matters at all.I suspect the problem is that their school system is mostly focused on memorization, so even if they technically learn the words and the grammar, they're never asked to actually speak the language and put it in practice
She and him needed to stop and smell the roses
>>217378509>AHHHH I GET TO GO A FREE TRIP TO JAPAN I AM GOING INSANE NOOO
>>217381201They can't all speak English if you go there for a day you'll see they have a bunch of translator apps and shit to help them communicate if they work jobs that require interacting with stupid gaijin
>>217381288>ai slop
>tfw you go to japan and its 90% indian people nowJesus christ what happened
For me it's Suntory whisky, for relaxing times ... make it a Suntory time.
>>217378666Who was in the wrong here?
>Woman writes a movie about being unfaithfulEvery single time
i only realized because of a video recently, that Lost in Translation and Her essentially ends up being two different perspectives on a divorce, one female one male (spike jonze and sofia coppola were married, then divorced, then made these films. they both end up having very large parallels to their lives). While it was nice to see they both recognized their comfort figure was ultimately a temporary thing (murray in lost, samantha in her), I do think sofia's perspective feels ultimately much more self indulgent "woe is me", where as Jonze's Her feels much much more mature and self reflective.
>>217381560Spike Jonze is at heart a little skater nerd who co-created Jackass and shot some all time classic music videos. Sofia is a textbook nepobaby.
