"Lost in Translation" was terrible. The smug elitest ScarJo character feels superior to everyone, including her husband, who is too busy actually working and earning a living to pay her the attention she believes she deserves. The Bill Murray character has taken a gig shooting a liquor ad and feels so superior and condescending to the work he is being paid to do. His poor wife at home just wants a little input from him about the decorating choices she is making in an effort to make their home more comfortable and we are invited to look down from a great height at her petty bourgeois preoccupations. You see, Scarlett and Bill are towering artists, so superior to their respective spouses, to their jobs (I guess ScarJo doesn't have a job), and really to everyone and everything around them. And these are the charaters we are supposed to sympathize with. A film made by an elitist for an elite audience. My liberal friends loved it. And did I mention it was slow as molasses?