This scene simply depicts that feeling of leaving a place which is not home, but started to feel like it. A blue afternoon, passing streets and traffic signs is all you see through the car window. Somehow, the city has some magic, is prettier than you could have realized before. You wish to stay, but you are a passenger on a car that cannot stop by for a while. For a last while. Nostalgia.
Daysi Paola Cruz Castillo that was kind of the way I felt the first time I was leaving Japan after spending a month there. I went there at the end of August and stayed till the first day of October, which turned out to be the first day after the summer heat broke, it was a cool, rainy day, and I really didn’t want to leave. Fortunately I’ve been able to go back a few times, but nothing felt like that first time leaving, not knowing if I would ever make the trip back...
Sometimes all we need is the satisfaction of knowing we shared something really special with someone that will last in memory forever, and that person knows it too. They both knew they were what they needed only at that place, only at that time. Absolutely beautiful.
Hi lista2k! I like how you define that as it answers to a happening in my own life with a lady I met in the spring of '76 while traveling in Greece. It was always a platonic relationship. We became pen pals as she lived in Nova Scotia. I still have all the letters over the years of her going to college, working on an ocean liner and falling in love with the engineer and marrying him, and raising three children. I even made my way to their home and helped peel logs for a big addition to their beautiful log cabin. I wondered why she chose such and opposite person to spend her life with. I said nothing about it and she on her own said "opposite poles attract." I still silently thought it was a mistake. The children all graduated from high school. She got a divorce and didn't tell me why. She then fell in love again with a very nice man yet several years of happiness suddenly ended when he literally dropped dead of some strange syndrome. She then fell in love again and traveled all over the western US with her husband. I felt bad as they never stopped to visit me. Her children married and one had a child etc. She suddenly stopped writing back. Two Christmases passed and no letters answered. I was very sad, and still am. I'm cleaning papers and one time thought I should mail all the letters she wrote as her life transpired as I'm, in the afternoon of my life, leaving in a few months on a great world journey that could last years and parting with my few material things. I might just part with the letters and throw them away yet not throw away something meaningful occurred even in a fragment of time. You have a good way of putting life events in their place with what you said. If I had only looked at it that way I wouldn't be feeling years later like I do now. Our letters spanned 40 years!
"this meant as much to me as it did to you".. :) dese r d perfect words to describe how they're feeling, d characters...i wish we cld all do dat in real life too, express ourselves dat way...
Me, and two friends went to see this film in 2003. We're not that close anymore, but I'll never forget that feeling, how close we where back then, how I loved them!
you should call them or better visit them.. me and my sister saw this in the theater when it came out, I will always cherish that, I wish I can go back to that time.. it's never to late to say hey
peteblueeyes Awe man I'm always sad to hear about close relationships that slowly evaporate over time. That can be really painful. Glad you all have reconnected more!
I love how this movie shows Tokyo and Kyoto in such a soulful way... truly melancholic and spiritually enlightening on two strangers sparking up in a romance. This has no adult scenes and is not controversial, it is simply beautiful in its whole purity
Well said. Lost In Translation remains my favorite romance (by far) mainly due to the description you give. It helps that the chemistry between the two of them is amazing but the story is told with a subtlety that you don't see often.
Never has a film moved me emotionally like this one. You laugh, get enveloped in the moment, but you have that melancholy feeling in the back of your mind that these moments won't last forever... One of the saddest parts of this movie is that both characters found perfect solace in each other's company, yet both realized that their previous commitments prevented them from seeking out their love. It's so tragic, yet beautiful.
This is so true. Beautiful and sad at the same way. After all we just have to go home, go back to our old lives, no matter how great time we had. We're all lonely, unhappy in our relationships, and suddenly we meet THAT person and nothing is like it was before. Anyway... I love this movie. It's a masterpiece.
Olivier Ordóñez They always make the people out to be perfect in romance films, as if they're trying to make their ideal, but that's not a romance with a pulse, it's just a pretty model they wish they could be.
And that kiss on the cheek he gives her after the mouth kiss, it was so sweet and wholesome, you can tell he really loves her... i just can't. So beautiful :')
Always loved this movie. It's just so sweet and you can read whatever you want into the relationship. I've been travelling a lot over the last few years and have experienced this bittersweet goodbye a few times now. Always meeting people and then having to split up and go back to regular life, most likely to never see them again. But I'm thankful I had that time with them in the first place.
Had my lost in translation in Osaka. The way she said her last goodbye reminds me so much of how I felt... Wonderful days we had which I won't forget. Life goes on. We go on with the sparkling memories... Love love this movie...
I lived in NYC all alone when this movie came out. I thought I'd hike over to the theater in Times Square to see it. It really hit home for what I was going through. Good for any person who has ever lived alone in a big city. I made friends eventually.
This seems to be one of those rare flicks that had a well put together background soundtrack that enhanced and complimented the feel of the movie perfectly. You're drawn into without even realizing it...and sometimes, without even knowing why. All you know is it just feels right.
While the ending was bittersweet it was also uplifting. Bob seemed completely lost until Charlotte reminded him that he still could enjoy the simplest things. He would have been destroyed by leaving until he got to say goodbye the way he wanted to. The smile as he walked away said it all "Thank you for giving me my life back"
This movie came out as I was going through a bad long distance relationship. Things started out great but soon there was no passion left, and we were going through the motions. This whole movie but especially this ending just messes me up so much. I remember how happy we were at the start, and how we had to say goodbye.
This is an excellent example of an average movie that punches above its weight through a superlative climax :) I had heard Just Like Honey before I saw this movie but fell in love with it only after watching this magical ending.
I remember when I saw this movie in theaters, I balled my eyes out during this scene. It's so sad, yet truly fitting. Watching Bob's (Bill Murray) taxi ride towards the airport really made me feel the impact of 'goodbye'. Tokyo was their adventure and their stage. This film is absolutely beautiful. Top ten all time for me.
Angels fall like rain And love is all of heaven away Inside you the time moves Stars come down in you And love, you can't give it away Inside you the time moves Don't you go It makes no sense When all your talking supermen Just take away the time And get in the way Ain't it just like rain And love, is only heaven away Inside you the time moves And she don't fade The ghost in you She don't fade Inside you the time moves And she don't fade
(Lyrics) Listen to the girl As she takes on half the world Moving up and so alive In her honey dripping beehive Beehive It's good, so good, it's so good So good Walking back to you Is the hardest thing that I can do That I can do for you For you I'll be your plastic toy I'll be your plastic toy For you Eating up the scum Is the hardest thing for Me to do Just like honey (x 17)
3:17 I love the way the world famous Tokyo Tower is only shown for a few seconds and then cuts back to the crazy, bustling, confusing but incredible maze that Tokyo is.
So so true. We meet someone new...that someone special, and there's a moment between them...and it's beautiful...yet soon that moment is gone and you cant get it back.
In life...i save a lot of wasted time by asking people if they like the film 'Lost in translation'?...if they say 'no, it bored me to death'...or...'I hated it, nothing happens!'...then, for me, further investment in them is wholly unnecessary.
Dude, that's "real life". Only in the movies does it end nice/neat. That's why we need films, so that we can "hope" for next time. Art/inspiration. Where would we be without it.
It was superb that, although we have witnessed their interactions from the beginning, what Bill whispers to Charlotte is so personal and intimate that even we are not privy to his words which evidently touched Charlotte very deeply.
Godammit, I tried so hard not to watch or read those videos/articles that explain what Bob said just to keep it a mystery forever and then here you are.
This last scene is complicated but you can tell what was said just from the expression on his face before and after the whisper, and especially on hers. That is not the smile of a girl that just had her heart broken. Her face was not one of "I am never going to see him again and this was our last kiss" but of "I am in love with this man on some level and we will see where this goes." The scene is so powerful because we learn that this is not a story of what was but of what is going to be.
I had this moment. Midnight, Union Square, New York City in December. I know I will never have one again and I will never forget it. It was magical. Perfect ending to this film.
Just like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain was the perfect song choice for this epic scene....I think 'Atmosphere' by Joy Division would have been just as poignant!! Amazing film, very soulful!!
my fav movie of all times..and when "Just like honey "started to play ahh ( I already was nuts for that song ) I was like oh bah its like your heart beat so strong every time this song starts to play.. ....
This movie, and this scene in particular, inspired me to maintain long distance relationship with a Taiwanese girl I fell in love with while studying together in China/Hong Kong. It's been over a year now since we've started dating, and we're finally living together in Taiwan. This movie simply rules.
I wonder what kind of person would go and say this film is bad. There are no words to describe it. The ending alone provokes so many feelings on the viewer. Brillliant.
This scene simply depicts that feeling of leaving a place which is not home, but started to feel like it. A blue afternoon, passing streets and traffic signs is all you see through the car window. Somehow, the city has some magic, is prettier than you could have realized before. You wish to stay, but you are a passenger on a car that cannot stop by for a while. For a last while. Nostalgia.
Daysi Paola Cruz Castillo 👌
This is spot on
Daysi Paola Cruz Castillo that was kind of the way I felt the first time I was leaving Japan after spending a month there. I went there at the end of August and stayed till the first day of October, which turned out to be the first day after the summer heat broke, it was a cool, rainy day, and I really didn’t want to leave. Fortunately I’ve been able to go back a few times, but nothing felt like that first time leaving, not knowing if I would ever make the trip back...
Daysi Paola Cruz Castillo I think your comment is perfect description. So good.
This definition would be in a dictionary.
Sometimes all we need is the satisfaction of knowing we shared something really special with someone that will last in memory forever, and that person knows it too. They both knew they were what they needed only at that place, only at that time. Absolutely beautiful.
Hi lista2k! I like how you define that as it answers to a happening in my own life with a lady I met in the spring of '76 while traveling in Greece. It was always a platonic relationship. We became pen pals as she lived in Nova Scotia. I still have all the letters over the years of her going to college, working on an ocean liner and falling in love with the engineer and marrying him, and raising three children. I even made my way to their home and helped peel logs for a big addition to their beautiful log cabin. I wondered why she chose such and opposite person to spend her life with. I said nothing about it and she on her own said "opposite poles attract." I still silently thought it was a mistake. The children all graduated from high school. She got a divorce and didn't tell me why. She then fell in love again with a very nice man yet several years of happiness suddenly ended when he literally dropped dead of some strange syndrome. She then fell in love again and traveled all over the western US with her husband. I felt bad as they never stopped to visit me. Her children married and one had a child etc. She suddenly stopped writing back. Two Christmases passed and no letters answered. I was very sad, and still am. I'm cleaning papers and one time thought I should mail all the letters she wrote as her life transpired as I'm, in the afternoon of my life, leaving in a few months on a great world journey that could last years and parting with my few material things. I might just part with the letters and throw them away yet not throw away something meaningful occurred even in a fragment of time. You have a good way of putting life events in their place with what you said. If I had only looked at it that way I wouldn't be feeling years later like I do now. Our letters spanned 40 years!
Yes
well thats a lil too rich lista , but i get sensitive too sometimes....
This movie came out in 2003 so it is already 20 years old at this point. The turn of the century saw some pretty decent movies. Time flies.
I really don’t want to be cynical but I feel that films have gotten worse or atleast there are less interesting small films being made.
I love how this scene captures a feeling like "this meant as much to me as it did to you, so this is a proper goodbye"
That's not a goodbye. In fact that's a beginning...
"this meant as much to me as it did to you".. :) dese r d perfect words to describe how they're feeling, d characters...i wish we cld all do dat in real life too, express ourselves dat way...
Wanda everything ends, the fact that it didn’t last forever doesn’t diminish its meaning.
Never really thought much of Scarlett Johanssen until this film. She was perfect for this role, and her understated intensity was incredible.
Me, and two friends went to see this film in 2003. We're not that close anymore, but I'll never forget that feeling, how close we where back then, how I loved them!
you should call them or better visit them.. me and my sister saw this in the theater when it came out, I will always cherish that, I wish I can go back to that time.. it's never to late to say hey
It's okay, in the three years since I posted this we've gotten closer again! :D
peteblueeyes Awe man I'm always sad to hear about close relationships that slowly evaporate over time. That can be really painful. Glad you all have reconnected more!
for me the movie is constantine :)
@@peteblueeyesfromBI awesome follow-up comment!!!
Probably the most bittersweet closing scene in film history.
I love how this movie shows Tokyo and Kyoto in such a soulful way... truly melancholic and spiritually enlightening on two strangers sparking up in a romance. This has no adult scenes and is not controversial, it is simply beautiful in its whole purity
I agree.
Well said. Lost In Translation remains my favorite romance (by far) mainly due to the description you give. It helps that the chemistry between the two of them is amazing but the story is told with a subtlety that you don't see often.
One of the best ending scene
I couldn't agree more. A magic & deep connection between 2 strangers far away from home. Simple and beautiful
This movie has the best cast, setting, soundtrack and cinematography! Bill Murray and ScarJo! Japan in 2002, Shoegaze! It is such a piece of art!
Best closing scene of any film I've ever seen.
It is very good, but great movies pride themselves on their closing scenes. Casablanca? The Shawshank Redemption? Citizen Kane? Lots of great endings.
Pursuit of Happyness?
8 1/2
Try Thelma and Louise's last scene
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke." -- Hermann Hesse
Nice one Bart!!
Cringe
One of my favorite books.
Never has a film moved me emotionally like this one. You laugh, get enveloped in the moment, but you have that melancholy feeling in the back of your mind that these moments won't last forever...
One of the saddest parts of this movie is that both characters found perfect solace in each other's company, yet both realized that their previous commitments prevented them from seeking out their love. It's so tragic, yet beautiful.
Meeting someone special on your travels is very hard. Not only does it change your itinerary, it changes your life.
This is so true. Beautiful and sad at the same way. After all we just have to go home, go back to our old lives, no matter how great time we had. We're all lonely, unhappy in our relationships, and suddenly we meet THAT person and nothing is like it was before. Anyway... I love this movie. It's a masterpiece.
This is my kind of Love Story Movie. Not the typical happy ending one you get from Hollywood.
Olivier Ordóñez They always make the people out to be perfect in romance films, as if they're trying to make their ideal, but that's not a romance with a pulse, it's just a pretty model they wish they could be.
love this movie. gives me some kind of melancholy...
The look Scarlett gives him after he kisses her and her little 'bye' oh my God my heart splits in two every time...
And that kiss on the cheek he gives her after the mouth kiss, it was so sweet and wholesome, you can tell he really loves her... i just can't. So beautiful :')
Great scene from a great movie. In spite of their age differences, the chemistry was just there.
Always loved this movie. It's just so sweet and you can read whatever you want into the relationship. I've been travelling a lot over the last few years and have experienced this bittersweet goodbye a few times now. Always meeting people and then having to split up and go back to regular life, most likely to never see them again. But I'm thankful I had that time with them in the first place.
One of the best closing touch to a movie...ever....
if this movie went on for 7hrs i could have sat down and watched the entire thing without a blink of an eye
Had my lost in translation in Osaka. The way she said her last goodbye reminds me so much of how I felt... Wonderful days we had which I won't forget. Life goes on. We go on with the sparkling memories... Love love this movie...
I lived in NYC all alone when this movie came out. I thought I'd hike over to the theater in Times Square to see it. It really hit home for what I was going through. Good for any person who has ever lived alone in a big city. I made friends eventually.
This is one of those films I'll watch again and again and will never get tired of it :)
This seems to be one of those rare flicks that had a well put together background soundtrack that enhanced and complimented the feel of the movie perfectly. You're drawn into without even realizing it...and sometimes, without even knowing why. All you know is it just feels right.
While the ending was bittersweet it was also uplifting. Bob seemed completely lost until Charlotte reminded him that he still could enjoy the simplest things. He would have been destroyed by leaving until he got to say goodbye the way he wanted to. The smile as he walked away said it all "Thank you for giving me my life back"
This movie came out as I was going through a bad long distance relationship. Things started out great but soon there was no passion left, and we were going through the motions. This whole movie but especially this ending just messes me up so much. I remember how happy we were at the start, and how we had to say goodbye.
If I can ever have a moment as powerful and beautiful as this in my life, I'll die contented
THE middle-aged guy's movie. Bravo.
This is an excellent example of an average movie that punches above its weight through a superlative climax :) I had heard Just Like Honey before I saw this movie but fell in love with it only after watching this magical ending.
This scene gets me every time. Tears pouring down my face...
The most beautiful roses are those I couldn’t pick
This one scene always leave me tearful. So sweet....yet so sad. He should've stayed.in Tokoyo. They could have started a jazz band. :-)
shakenama the reality is he can't. He has a family and a life to go back to as she does.
The last words are not of Goodbye, he whispers Come to New York ❤️
This movie shows how is Tokyo in all its essence, and these make sense when you put a foot in Shibuya. Tokyo is unbelievable!!
"I've gotta go now, but that doesn't have to come between us, okay?" "Okay."
I remember when I saw this movie in theaters, I balled my eyes out during this scene. It's so sad, yet truly fitting. Watching Bob's (Bill Murray) taxi ride towards the airport really made me feel the impact of 'goodbye'. Tokyo was their adventure and their stage. This film is absolutely beautiful. Top ten all time for me.
Angels fall like rain
And love is all of heaven away
Inside you the time moves
Stars come down in you
And love, you can't give it away
Inside you the time moves
Don't you go
It makes no sense
When all your talking supermen
Just take away the time
And get in the way
Ain't it just like rain
And love, is only heaven away
Inside you the time moves
And she don't fade
The ghost in you
She don't fade
Inside you the time moves
And she don't fade
upon viewing it is depressing but at the same time its heartfelt and uplifting.
Facebook wasn't around in 2003. Myspace was.
These two characters can reunite on facebook now
ahahahhhaha, so true
there are still some people don't have facebook, nor instagram. And sometimes, we can rarely live that sort of pure experiences.
Why can't they reunite on MySpace?
Most beautiful ending in the world - I always cry so much
(Lyrics)
Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive
Beehive
It's good, so good, it's so good
So good
Walking back to you
Is the hardest thing that
I can do
That I can do for you
For you
I'll be your plastic toy
I'll be your plastic toy
For you
Eating up the scum
Is the hardest thing for
Me to do
Just like honey (x 17)
3:17 I love the way the world famous Tokyo Tower is only shown for a few seconds and then cuts back to the crazy, bustling, confusing but incredible maze that Tokyo is.
Not that famous.
There is nothing worse, meeting your soul-mate at the wrong place and the wrong time :(
This is perfect. You meet someone you share a connection(doesnt even have to be sexual)and then you part.
a beautiful ending to this wonderful film....wish I could have a connection like that just once in my lifetime...
So so true. We meet someone new...that someone special, and there's a moment between them...and it's beautiful...yet soon that moment is gone and you cant get it back.
dont worry about that. I watched this masterpiece so many times I cant count. And it's still so amazing. I truly love this movie.
Awesome movie. One of the best I have watched. Relating to my life.
If you meet your soul-mate, you already have been at the right place at the right time...
There is something just magical about this scene.
Almost 20 years old, man do I miss the early 2000s.
i tried to forget this movie, but ehh. Lets get into deep emotional feeling again.
This movie holds a special place in my heart because..I too, have been lost in trnslation.
In life...i save a lot of wasted time by asking people if they like the film 'Lost in translation'?...if they say 'no, it bored me to death'...or...'I hated it, nothing happens!'...then, for me, further investment in them is wholly unnecessary.
This is truly one of the best movies I have ever seen.
This movie was the highlight of my summer. Simply amazing.
I will always absolutely adore this film.
Just beautiful....tears in my eyes...again and again..... love this movie :-)
What a sweet soul you have. May your travels bring you much happiness.
Yes. It is timeless. A beautiful story, so well acted, it will never leave you.
Always makes me teary-eyed when I hear this song. The scene reminds me of when I had to go home after having fun going abroad to visit family/friends.
Dude, that's "real life". Only in the movies does it end nice/neat. That's why we need films, so that we can "hope" for next time. Art/inspiration. Where would we be without it.
I am still not over this. *sniffle*
i have watched this movie so many times... and its still amazing
Who else laughed when bill was on that stair climber thing and he yells for help.
"I have to be leaving now, but I on't let that come between us, ok?"
This is the perfect song for this movie...reminds me things that we can't change, misunderstandings, impossible love.
favourite movie ever
It's sad because they'd never be able to have that experience again. Even if she visited him when she got back. Love will tear you apart.
That is a truly stunning ending to a great film.
It was superb that, although we have witnessed their interactions from the beginning, what Bill whispers to Charlotte is so personal and intimate that even we are not privy to his words which evidently touched Charlotte very deeply.
thanks for posting. one of the beat ending ever to me. it's just like honey...
"I have to be leaving now, but I won't let that come between us, okay?"
Is that really it?
Godammit, I tried so hard not to watch or read those videos/articles that explain what Bob said just to keep it a mystery forever and then here you are.
This last scene is complicated but you can tell what was said just from the expression on his face before and after the whisper, and especially on hers. That is not the smile of a girl that just had her heart broken. Her face was not one of "I am never going to see him again and this was our last kiss" but of "I am in love with this man on some level and we will see where this goes." The scene is so powerful because we learn that this is not a story of what was but of what is going to be.
Love this movie, the two of them have such great chemistry together
Best movie ever made...
Thank u for shared it, this movie endding its my favorite!..... :o)
es un muy buen final de película, no pudo ser mejor.
Probably the best opening and closing scenes a movie can ever have....
What a wonderful movie. A perfect ending...just beautiful.
I had this moment. Midnight, Union Square, New York City in December. I know I will never have one again and I will never forget it. It was magical. Perfect ending to this film.
Just like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain was the perfect song choice for this epic scene....I think 'Atmosphere' by Joy Division would have been just as poignant!! Amazing film, very soulful!!
I totally love it ... Such a masterpiece
This movie almost made me cry. It really hit me, very emotional for me.
still my very BEST ending scene yet ! thanx 4 posting juan.f.
Duya...u c this? u r still in my heart.
This film truly depicts my first experience to Japan....ironically also in Shinjuku...and this scene is always so real to that moment!
my fav movie of all times..and when "Just like honey "started to play ahh ( I already was nuts for that song ) I was like oh bah its like your heart beat so strong every time this song starts to play.. ....
This is one of the most touching Goodbyes ever.
This is like a bit part for Murray, but is one of his most intense performances. Love this flick, and the soundtrack,
I think this is one of the most brilliant decisions Sofia made. The scene is incomparably poignant as a result.
Such a beautiful scene...
I watch this every day.
Best movie ending ever! Such a beautiful movie!
This movie, and this scene in particular, inspired me to maintain long distance relationship with a Taiwanese girl I fell in love with while studying together in China/Hong Kong. It's been over a year now since we've started dating, and we're finally living together in Taiwan. This movie simply rules.
together in taiwan, (soon to be heartland commie china). good luck with that...
Hope you guys are still together
@@jimmyberry4451 haha no we broke up, but two years later I met the love of my life there, been together for 8 years and happily married.
@@9ner Happy life to the both of you!
I used to live in Japan and this brings up many things for me.
I wonder what kind of person would go and say this film is bad. There are no words to describe it. The ending alone provokes so many feelings on the viewer. Brillliant.
I never found out what he whispered. But, I never want to know.
Goosebumps, every time.
One of the best scenes in the cinema history
I aready watched this movie four times this movie is amazing