When two or more people experience something, whatever it is, their perspectives will differ significantly. Because the way we perceive reality is determined by our past and our personality. Movie Rashomon explores it in depth, in which a single fact can become incredibly inexplicable when it becomes impossible to reconcile two contradictory points of view. In the divorce case of Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola, who are both film directors, Each of them made an excellent film in which they expressed their point of view on their unsuccessful marriage..
They met in 1992 while filming a video for the group Sonic Youth. After dating for several years, they married in 1999, the same year Spike Jonze released his first film. Being John Malkovich. Four years later, they filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.. In the same 2003, Sofia Coppola will release her second film. Lost in translationabout a young woman caught in an unhappy marriage.
Ten years after the divorce, in 2013, Spike Jonze will be released. Her, a film that beautifully captured the new loneliness, based on relationships on the Internet and artificial intelligence.. It would earn him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. But after this success, he did not make any more films, only short films and the occasional music video.
Two views of the same grief
Through the creative process, we can identify how each person experienced the breakup. In Sofia Coppola’s case, she was already preparing a film about her failed relationship even before the divorce became official. What is he doing Lost in translation in a passionate story and very personal. In the film, Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) accompanies her husband, who is hired to photograph a rock band in Japan, on a work trip. She feels frustrated because her husband seems to be much more interested in his work than in her, leaving her alone in the hotel all day with nothing to do. Even when they are together, the gap between them is obvious.
It’s easy to spot the parallel reality between Sofia Coppola’s relationship with Spike Jonze, and Charlotte’s relationship with her photographer husband. Jonze began his career as a photographer and has also directed numerous music videos. Coppola claims the character is not her ex-husband, but there are experiential elements to it. Which is hard to believe, given all the similarities to real life.
Lost in translation This is a film about the nature of loneliness. shows us two dissatisfied characters who briefly find respite in each other. Made by an artist ending a marriage that, for all we know, could have failed exactly as we see on screen.
Friends of the couple also noticed the similarities. What led to the director Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Spike Jonze’s close friend Michel Gondry, confront Sofia Coppola at the film premiere Lost in translation. He scolded her for apparently revealing their relationship to the world, for which he later apologized to her.
We can see how Her this is about the same thing, but at the moment after a breakup. We see the main character brooding painfully, tormented by his memories. Constantly analyze your memories trying to follow the spark and its development until it turned into a fire that ended their love.. Coppola wanted to portray his heartbreak vividly and directly, while Jonze waited ten years to introduce us to a lonely protagonist, unable to form new connections because his gaze is always directed backwards.
Therefore, for now Lost in translation depicts a feeling of coldness predicting the end of a relationship, Her focuses on discoveries that emerge only in retrospect. Joaquin Phoenix’s character spends the entire film thinking about what could have gone wrong. Towards the end, when he meets with his ex-wife to finalize their divorce, a very unpleasant tension dominates the interaction. The main character cannot help but remember the good moments of the relationship. Then, after an unfortunate comment, his ex-wife reminds him that he always wanted her to be something she wasn’t, someone lively, smiling and carefree. It even turned out that he wanted her to take antidepressants. According to her, he wanted to have a wife but not deal with anything real, which is why his girlfriend is now an AI.
Aesthetically, both films are also very similar. Probably thanks to K.K. Barrett, who was responsible for the design of both films. And of course, both films feature Scarlett Johansson’s star turn. His presence is a clear reminder that two masterpieces connected by one tragedytransformed into something beautiful through the artistic process.
Source: Hiper Textual
