Navigating the Global- Lost in Translation

The 21st century term, globalization, conceptualizes the contemporary breakd suffer of traditional barriers and structures between cultural paradigms, culminating in an increasingly interconnected and conglomerate global environment. Manfred Stager, REMIT Professor of Global Stu cronks, describes this trend as the increasing desalination of conventional parameters within which individuals imagine their communal innovation. Focusing on the redefinition of cultural and physical boundaries, the quote theorizes the complex and Indeterminate nature of an Interconnected world, and as a result. E uncertainty experienced by Individuals who attempt to navigate it. Sophie Copulas Lost in Translation (2003) comments on agglutinations progressive development toward cultural uniformity, utilizing Tokyo to exhibit habitations of Western and Nipponese cultures. Similarly, Witt limeades The Whale explores the encroachment of global forces into Maori culture, depicting the increasing stratificatio ns of traditional values and their eventual submergence by the dominant Western Influence.Both texts explore the conflict between global and local, as well as the need to adapt for individuals to form meaningful connections ND a sense of self-identity. The conflict between local and global forces is the underlying substance of Lost, focusing on the Journey of Bob and Charlotte as they attempt to navigate the cultural uncertainty of Tokyo. Copula capitalizes on Tokyo modern identity operator of a technically- advanced hybrid city, using It as a synecdoche for the spread of global Influences, namely Westernizes and the increasing prevalence of technology.The film commences with a taxi remonstrate through the urban centre of Tokyo, featuring an advertisement of the protagonist, Bob, an American movie star, surrounded by Nipponese signs and banners. The inclusion of intense neon-lighting is juxtaposed by camera close-ups of Japanese characters, serving to highlight the combination of the traditional and modern-day, specifically the global pressure toward technology. The Increasing Influence of westbound culture Is shown by Bobs advertisement being predominate over its Japanese counterparts through the use of camera framing, central placement and MIS en scene.The paradoxical use of an American actor to advertise a Japanese whisky also comments on the decline of Japanese culture, instead replaced by preference of global westernizes images and influences. Despite the physical location of Japan, Copula emphases the deterioration of Japanese culture when faced by globalization and therefore, the conflict between the local and global. In The Whale, Witt Alhambra similarly explores the conflict between local and global, namely the fender of Westernizes and as a consequence, the dissolution of Maori culture.The short story characterizes a Maori elder as he struggles to preserve his native heritage and tradition, stating The others felt the pull of the Apache Maori intelligence operation Apache, meaning white man, both emphasis the increasing influence of Western culture, in correspondence with the ideas explored in Lost. This is paralleled by the motif of the meeting house, exemplification of the Maori culture, The outtake work is pitted with cigarette burns A name has been chipped into a carved panel, depicting not only the physical defacement of the tabernacle but also the cultural deterioration of the Maori.As explored in Lost, the final line, the whale lifts a fluke of its giant tail to beat the air with its expiry agony, metaphorically alludes to he inevitable nature of global hybrid and destruction of cultural diversity, epitomizing the conflict between local and global. In Lost, the increasingly complex global environment is explored through Bob and Charlotte cultural displacement, which they are able to overcome through emotional connections.Attracted to each other by their cultural similarities and local origins, Bob and Charlott e form a relationship based on mutual loneliness and uneasiness within Japans unfamiliar surroundings, emphasized in a specialty shot of Bob and Charlotte fidgeting in a hotel elevator, in Juxtaposition to the motionless Japanese tarots. Evident in the close-up take of Charlotte leaning on Bobs shoulder in a karaoke bar, their emotional bond enables them to adapt and find connections to Japans fast-paced global culture with greater confidence.Illustrated through wide- shot tinged with a neutral palette, Charlotte blends indistinguishably among the Japanese push in the busy Tokyo street, and Bobs final Journey to Tokyo airport is captured by a hand-held camera panning across Tokyo urban skyline, intend their renewed sense of acceptance and self-identity within the global landscape. Hence, in Lost in Translation, Copula emphasizes the need for individuals to adapt to the global influences shaping our world, and to realize our own existence and individuality beyond cultural paradigm s.This concept is similarly explored in The Whale, however, in contrast to Lost, the inability to adapt to global influences leads to advertise cultural displacement and isolation. The protagonists retreat from the cultural influences of globalization is illustrated in the melancholy tone of Better to die than to see this changing world. He is too emeritus for it. He is stranded here, revealing his feelings of alienation within an increasingly westernizes world.His cultural isolation is explored repeatedly through the use of exclusion pronouns, writing They roll at him, and beckon him to Join them. He turns away, again metaphorically showing his rejection of globalization and instead choosing to solely clinging to his traditional beliefs. The desertion by his people for the popularized western society alongside his inability to adapt catalyst the emotional impact of his cultural, epitomized by the bleak statement He will be glad to die. Unlike Lost, the protagonist is