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For the sake of science, I am going to take the most liked review of this movie, Google Translate it into Japanese, then Google Translate it back into English. Let's see what happens.

Original review by Lisa Bettany: "Who doesn't love a movie that starts on Scarlett Johansson's bum?"

Lisa Bettany's review Lost in Translation: "Who starts in the ass of Scarlett Johansson, you do not love movies?"

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Sofia Coppola you fucking weirdo.

I was really looking forward to this.

Lost In Translation takes a look at a blossoming love affair between 2 Americans isolated in Japan. My problem with this is that I found the depiction of Japan and of Japanese people by the film to be, how do I say, dogshit. Like half of the film's runtime is Bill Murray making fun of the fact that the Japanese people don't have perfect English pronunciation while completely ignoring the fact that they speak two languages while he speaks one. The jokes get way more racist and uncomfortable than that, but I don't want to spoil the gut-busting humor that Sofia Coppola packed into this Oscar for Best…

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the earliest hints of Scarlett Johansson's asian heritage can be traced back to the filming of this movie

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loved the two ladies in the waiting room of the hospital who couldn’t stop chuckling in the background throughout the whole scene

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sofia coppola really be making racist movies about sad white people and y'all are like 'wow story of my life. five stars.' lmao

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Lolita 2: Tokyo drift

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anyways alexa play kyoto by phoebe bridgers

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pls don’t hate me for this ~bad~ movie opinion but i simply did not feel the magic with this one. 

i don’t like the idea of japanese people being used as props and background for the white protagonists. 

i also had a really hard time getting into the romance when i found out scarjo was 17 during production. 

i can understand why people love this movie so much, it just really didn’t do it for me.

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I always manage to get incredibly anxious and wary over the prospect of rewatching the films that I love. To the point where my favorite films intimidate me, they scare me. Because if I saw such a clear reflection of myself in them at one point in my life what if when I look back into them I can't see my reflection anymore? What if I changed and didn't notice? What if the love I felt so strongly before turned out to be just transient white noise? What if.

Ebert once said that a favorite film is one you can watch over and over again and continuously fall in love with in new ways. He was right and I am…

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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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the last white man in tokyo

Review by Brendan Michaels

"I just feel so alone, even when I'm surrounded by other people."