Rating of
3.5/4
Deadpan humor and Wes Anderson-isms.
memento_mori - wrote on 08/15/13
There's something awkwardly comfortable about Wes Anderson's movies, isn't there?
His style is so quirky and upbeat. From his long, gliding shots to slow-motion sequences, Anderson creates a mood of a world that's parallel to ours. Certain things are emphasized, colors are separated from one another and the framework is magnificent. All of these factors were present in The Darjeeling Limited.
The movie is so wonderfully weird, it's fascinating how randomly everything happens.
All the events kind of just fall into the movie, so that's a definite point for ingenuity.
From the start, we are put directly in our actors' presence and witness them throwing great dialogue back and forth.
The storyline is at first quite confusing, but the way I understood it from the beginning, was a reunion planned by the eldest of three brothers, looking to find a spiritual awakening after a near fatal road accident.
The way things pan out after the initial starting premise is great. The film takes us on a religious journey with dramatic touches as well as on a funny one, and Anderson together with Roman Coppola knew how to balance these evenly.
It's just a solid 3/4 in my book. It isn't a brilliant work, and the characters don't change tremendously by the end of the story, but the way the film is pieced together gave me a good understanding of what the makers were setting out to tell.
Plus, it has a cool cameo by Bill Murray.
Is it a spiritual journey? No. Is it a well-made one? Yup.
