Tag: Wes Anderson

  • Asteroid City Explained | What the Alien Really Means

    ACTOR/ALIEN I don’t play him as an alien, actually. I play him as a metaphor. That’s my interpretation. ACTRESS/SHELLY Metaphor for what? ACTOR/ALIEN I don’t know yet. It soon becomes clear in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City that there’s a link between Augie Steenbeck’s late wife and the Arid Plains Meteorite. Just as Augie’s wife was…

  • Moonrise Kingdom Explained – A Fight for Identity

    Sam Shakusky and Susi Bishop are outsiders. Or at least, they are both described as such by their immediate social groups and wider society. Sam is “emotionally disturbed” due to the death of his parents and Susi is known as a “very troubled” child. These labels distance both characters from their social groups; Sam from…

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel Explained – Fighting Fascism

    On the evening of 22 February 1942, Stefan Zweig walked into the bedroom of his rented bungalow in Petropolis, Brazil. He combed his hair, lay down beside his wife, and reached for a lethal dose of sleeping pills. “The world of my own language sank and was lost to me and my spiritual homeland, Europe,…

  • The French Dispatch Explained – The Lonely Artist

    Buried beneath the humour, style, and nostalgic beauty in Wes Anderson’s latest film, loneliness is presented as a necessary condition for creative life. In the restless, living city of Ennui — home to the French Dispatch — each citizen has a community and a sense of belonging. The old people have the Hovel District, the…