Moonrise Kingdom

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After watching RushmoreLife Aquatic and Fantastic Mr. FoxI was really looking forward to Wes Anderson’s new film, Moonrise Kingdom.

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The film is set in 1965 on a small island, and focuses on the life of two young teenagers. Sam is an orphan, spending the summer in a scout camp. Suzy is a young woman, passionate about fantasy books, and misunderstood by her family. Both, for different reasons, struggle to find happiness in their life. They meet at a play held in the church and, through correspondence, they become really good friends. To be together, the circumstances force them to leave their families and go on an adventure into the wild of the small island.
Although the movie was exactly how I expected it to be, it was still both innovative and unpredictable. Wes Anderson’s style can be recognized in all the aspects of the movie. The sets, the acting, the way the shots are framed and the camera movements are well thought and strictly connected to create a surreal reality: nothing is left to improvisation. The sets work along with the framing of the shots to create symmetry, and the kids act unnaturallywhich might not immediately sound like a good feature, but works well in the context. The colours (especially yellow and brown, which feature in most shots) are carefully chosen to create a sixties atmosphere. The island where the movie is set is inspired by a small island off Rhode island that Wes Anderson often visits, and that he describes as stuck in the sixties.
The attention to detail is so meticulous that the atmosphere created results possible only in one of the fantasy books that Suzy loves. What makes this work is that the director manages to convince the audience that what they’re watching happened somewhere somehow. For the duration of the movie I was entirely captured in Wes Anderson’s world to the point that, for 94 minutes, it was as real as the cinema I was in.

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