<P>--Bill Murray </P> <P> Murray has described his biggest challenge in portraying Bob as managing the character's conflicted feelings . On one hand, Murray said, Bob knows that it could be dangerous to become too close to Charlotte, but on the other, he is lonely and knows that having an affair would be easy . Murray worked to portray a balance between being affectionate and being "respectable". </P> <P> The academic Marco Abel lists Lost in Translation as one of many films that belong to the category of "postromance" cinema, which he says offers a negative perspective of love, sex, romance, and dating . According to Abel, the characters in such films reject the idealized notion of lifelong monogamy . </P> <P> The author and filmmaker Anita Schillhorn van Veen interprets the film as a criticism of modernity, in which Tokyo is a contemporary "floating world" of fleeting pleasures that are too alienating and amoral to facilitate meaningful relationships . Tessa Dwyer, writing for Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series--Themes in Translation Studies, called Lost in Translation a polyglot film that challenges the film industry's "more usual tendency to ignore or deny issues of language difference" by highlighting Bob and Charlotte's difficult contact with the Japanese language . </P>

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