- Hodgepodge
- Jan 29, 2006
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Instead of relentlessly making GBS threads over a title with nothing else to offer, I'm deciding to praise Ghost World for being the movie Lost in Translation tried to be.
It came out two years earlier, also stars Scarlett Johansson along with Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi.
The themes of social isolation, age-gap romances and *holds nose* ennui are similar but more impactful, I found.
Trading Japan for bumfuck-any-small town USA trades thinly-veiled racism for honest cultural criticism, and dips a toe into that teenage angst "Catcher in the Rye" reservoir too.
I found both sides more of the romance relatable as well. I've known characters like those in Ghost World my whole life, they are real to me while the two travelers in LoT feel like fickle tourists.
its worth noting that neither is, in fact, a tourist. while both are privileged, each is there for work (being a the wife in thus context is work, as is being an actor)
the alienation they feel is not just ennui
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