School of Rock was very well done and very enjoyable.

Lost in Translation was great. Everything about the film was suc­cess­ful, but I espe­cially enjoyed the sub­tle­ness. The direc­tion was per­fect, in how under­played and min­i­mal­is­tic it made every­thing seem. I wasn’t truly impressed though until I found out that Sophia Coppola wrote the script as well. Bill Murray was made for the part, but every­one else was sat­is­fac­tory. The entire movie felt to me like a sim­ple glimpse into the chance inter­ac­tion of two peo­ple, and it began as gen­tly as it ended. The audi­ence is left as an observer, which made every­thing all the more believ­able to me. I inter­preted the story as the inter­ac­tion of two peo­ple, who are at two com­pletely dif­fer­ent points in their lives. As a result, their com­mu­ni­ca­tion becomes jum­bled. Lost in trans­la­tion. They dis­cuss the same things, but they’re not quite say­ing the same things. The res­o­lu­tion came from the end, when both peo­ple rec­og­nized the rela­tion­ship they had, and it was as far as it should have gone. Anything else would have seemed ridicu­lous. I think it was an over­rated movie, but def­i­nitely one that deserves a healthy, gen­er­ous amount of praise.

As for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind…

I’m at a loss for words. The entire expe­ri­ence was almost com­pletely inef­fa­ble. I laughed. I cried. I got goose­bumps. I melted. A com­plete mas­ter­piece, and the one of the most poignant films I’ve ever seen, although I’m par­tially biased due to my cur­rent cir­cum­stances. Where the Gondry/Kaufman duo failed in Human Nature due to an unsup­port­ive script and result­ing super­flu­ous direct­ing, this film has com­pletely suc­ceeded. A movie I will be buy­ing. A movie I will be watch­ing over and over again. A movie that would have changed my life had I not already come to the same con­clu­sion a few months earlier.