cultural dislocation as a metaphor for people who have gotten lost in their own lives

From LOST IN TRANSLATION film review about by Kirk Honeycutt, Sept 2, 2003, www.hollywoodreporter.com

Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" is a funny, bittersweet movie that uses cultural dislocation as a metaphor for people who have gotten lost in their own lives.
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Coppola sees in Tokyo's crowded, neon-lit urban landscape a society estranged from its own culture. The night is filled with pleasure-seekers obsessed by games, toys and American pop culture.
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The movie flirts with a sexual relationship between these two, but Coppola holds back, aware not only of the characters' age differences but a realization that what ails the couple cannot be resolved with sexual healing.