Oh hey, speaking of gorgeous, Moonrise Kingdom. Wes Anderson is so consistent in his weird visual style that sometimes it’s easy to reduce him to every Instagrammer’s wet dream, but his movies have real heart to match the uniqueness of the world in which his characters live. If you can get past the quirks and sometimes cuteness and roll with the spirit of the Anderson style there’s going to be a lovely reward for you, and if you can’t, I think even this one is sweet enough to win over anyone who possesses the capacity to feel.
If Anderson’s films just looked cool that’d be one thing, but he has a way of presenting these little dramas that tell us stories that seem oddly familiar and yet completely foreign. This is another case of a childhood romance that seems altogether new and strange but I can relate to it in a peculiar way. Maybe it’s because it’s mixed in the mad little details like a character known only as Social Services and lines like “Jiminy Cricket, he flew the coop!” Many directors play this type of material with a note of irony but with Anderson that seems to be missing. There’s a sincerity that he is able to establish in a way that confounds me and that I can appreciate at least half the time. There’s no one else who can make movies like this.
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