A blue toy sports car rests on a windowsill beside a drooping potted plant in evening light.

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Charlotte

You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?

— Lost in Translation • 2003

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker tentatively diagnoses a mid-life crisis, then asks about a Porsche as though buying one would confirm it. The joke rests on a familiar association between personal upheaval and an expensive car. The question reduces a complicated state of mind to one conspicuous purchase.

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