What’s Aged the Best?
Tokyo; hotel bar; smoking; no introductions; awkward fans; Phoenix; improvisation; departing husband; soundtrack; marriage arithmetic; limited connectivity
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- Early-2000s Tokyo inspires a desire to visit and stay at the Park Hyatt.
- Hotel bars with piano players are praised, with this bar considered exceptionally memorable as a film location.
- Smoking cigarettes and cigars in bars evokes nostalgia despite acknowledged health harms.
- Bob and Charlotte never formally introducing themselves is an appealing detail, despite his eventual ability to send a note to her room.
- The awkward fans praising Bob’s stunt driving are enjoyed; his past stardom is compared to a Gene Hackman or French Connection type.
- The film caught Phoenix before the band’s next breakthrough album.
- Murray’s apparently improvised stretches reward spotting where the camera was left running.
- Sending the husband away halfway through efficiently frees the central relationship to develop.
- The soundtrack has held up exceptionally well.
- Bob subtracting sleeping hours from the length of his marriage is a favorite comic theory.
- The period’s faxes and limited mobile communication preserve isolation; modern texting and internet use would reduce loneliness and change the intrusions.