Translator's movie collection
The Interpreter (2005)
It's the first film shot within the walls of the UN. The
absorbing thriller offers the looker a star cast, an intricate plot and
breathtaking events. The person to cope with all the difficulties is our colleague,
an interpreter!
An U.N. Interpreter Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) overhears a death threat against
an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than
Silvia can understand. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller (Sean
Penn), Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. The agent disbelieved the words
of an alarmed woman. He finds more and more reasons to mistrust her.
The only way out for Silvia left is to survive...
She managed with the difficult dialect to speak and will cope with
the rest of hardships on her way!
DVD (widescreen edition):
Lost in translation (2003)
A movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) with a sense of emptiness, and
a neglected newlywed Charlotte (Scarlett Yohansson) meet up as strangers
in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond. Both separately and together, they
live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both
confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves
and the Japanese. On the ground of solitude and boredom the flower
of a romance grows...
Translators will appreciate the eloquent scene of a careless
interpretation in the movie. It was done by a Japanese interpreter
on a film set when a commercial of whisky starring Bob Harris was being
filmed. Additional crafty director's ploy to draw the audience attention to the
matters of translation!
Book:
Soundtrack:
DVD:
DVD HD:
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Movie poster 2:
Turn Left Turn Right (2003)
It's a deeply touching Chinese romance film. John Liu (Takeshi
Kaneshiro) is a skilled violinist, but too classical to keep gigs
at recording studios, so he plays in a restaurant instead. He's shy
and handsome. Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) works as a translator at a publishing
house, translating horror novels (and, in her own time, poetry) from Polish
or German or English into Chinese. She's disorganized and shy. The characters
live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems
to keep them apart. They live in the same apartment building, but never meet,
because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.
But the girl with these great language skills deserves happiness...Will she find it?
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