Cyberbob |
27th May 2024 15:27 |
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Originally Posted by StN
(Post 2027910)
Asteroid City is a bit weird.
From the trailers, I thought it was a 1950's sciencefair-in-the-desert thing.
It is, but it's a film of a play about a meeting of characters. Lots of stars, like Cranston the narrator, by very nature breaking the fourth wall. On a meta level when he looks to his left and asks the characters if he is in this scene, and when told no, slides out of shot.
Typical Wes Anderson. Not awesome, not complete shit. Just weird.
Jeff Goldblum as the actor playing the alien - only on screen as a background character!
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Finally got around to watching Asteroid City. I love my dialogue heavy, stylized Wes Anderson flicks, but I still don't know if i love it or hate it.
I feel like it didn't have a point, but that's exactly how the actors in the "Asteroid City" play felt - Questioning their characters motives and not understanding the director's vision for the play - and I feel like that was the point and it's all very clever because you finish the movie immediately thinking "what was the point in that." Left feeling frustrated, demanding a deeper meaning - just like the actors in the play, in the tv special, in the movie.
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