The Friendship Dilemma Podcast
The Friendship Dilemma
Erik Childress & Morgan Gire
Episode 23: Lost In Translation (2003) - episode of The Friendship Dilemma podcast

Episode 23: Lost In Translation (2003)

1 hour 30 minutes Posted May 13, 2024 at 10:58 pm.
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Is the friendship between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Coppola’s sophomore effort entirely on the up-and-up? Erik and Morgan discuss the implications of jealousy between friends as well as how survival instincts translate into relationships. Just what was Coppola trying to infer with her opening shot if anything? Disagreements over the film’s content range from her style of filmmaking to whether its leads are tolerable people. How much ambiguity is acceptable within friendships and does the cloud of sexual imagery and thought taint an otherwise chaste relationship between the two?