Found in translation
I ONCE VISITED THE 51ST FLOOR OF THE Park Hyatt Tokyo to see a friend living out a fantasy high in the sky. Amongst the expected comforts were a distant view of Mount Fuji, a city far below and complete silence. This is the Lost in Translation bubble and the very hotel captured in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 movie. As actor Bill Murray puts it, in playing a role written specifically for him, “The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you”. Hard to be too upset way up here, I suppose, but the paradox is real. When my eyes were tired and I could no longer see the mountain or the city, I could have been anywhere. So, what translates in luxury hotel life when you lower these highs?
The question sits front and centre in Auckland. For, whether counting population and urban space, airports and transit systems, high-end fashion stores and sporting events with yachts, or,
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