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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1454183" data-attributes="member: 515">I've never been to Japan, but I've been out of the U.S. on several occassions, primarily to Mexico. The movie perfectly captured the sense of isolation that foreigners experience in a foreign land, especially if there are elements that remind you of home. People in those situations seek out and desperately cling to anyone else from their native country. That's what first brought Bill and Scarlett together. Then they found out they had a lot in common, and that made their bond stronger. They wanted to sexually consummate their relationship, but both knew that it was more important to just be friends than to be lovers. That is what makes the movie, to me, more powerful than your usual, run-of-the-mill, art house mood piece. These two characters connected on a deep, soul-mate sort of level. Yet both knew they were in situations that they couldn't get out of, for whatever reason. They both wanted a lover, but needed a good friend more, someone to spend some time with and just talk, or not. That's why Scarlett's character is a little pissed when she finds out Bill slept with the jazz singer from the hotel lounge -- she wasn't mad he had slept with someone else, just mad that he had spent some time with someone else. That was one of the refreshing elements of the movie. It didn't follow the standard movie cliche of these two strangers meeting in a strange land, falling in love and then chucking it all to be together. Forming a connection deeper than just sex was important, so important to them that they didn't want to spoil it with sex. And they don't chuck it all to be together; they go their seperate ways, to deal with their problems on their own.</blockquote>

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