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I want to add another film review, Lost In Translation. What a wonderful film, a bit odd at times but thoroughly enjoyable with several hilarious scenes. Basic summary: A famous film actor goes to Japan to make some wiskey commercials (he's being paid $2 million). He hates it and has a series of encounters with a young American women who is there with her husband and she also is not happy in Japan.
Not many uses for the classroom unless you are trying to make a point about translations. There is a great scene when he is actually shooting the commercial with a director who only speaks Japanese and a translator who appears to alter/embelish her translations. A hilarious few minutes.
David Dandridge