Friday, October 10, 2008

Found in Translation

I am tolerant of movies that have ambiguous endings. I feel that sometimes what a film has built cannot be adequately concluded on screen and therefore may best be left to our imaginations. That said, I am always curious of what the filmmakers had in mind for their characters. One such movie is Lost in Translation, the overrated but nonetheless very well made and entertaining Bill Murray/ Scarlett Johansson feature from 2003. At the end of the movie the two stars embrace while Murray inaudibly whispers in Johansson's ear. He seems to be actually saying something, but it just isn't possible to make out what it is without some kind of audio enhancement. Luckily, that's just what the video below features. It seems legit to me and if you haven't seen it yet then it really adds to the movie and solves the mystery quite aptly. Be warned, if you don't want to shatter the film's mystique, don't listen!

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