Auge in Translation

From Auge page 103: "The space of non-place creates neither singular identity nor relations; only solitude, and similitude."

This is much like the way the characters in Lost in Translation seemed to feel when they were separated from each other. In an area where they knew no one else or had no one else to really communicate with, their hotel rooms became non-places. While spending time in the hotel rooms the audience gets to witness first hand how a space made into a non-place emphasizes the solitude that the characters felt.