Familiar recipe, familiar taste

Haven 2022-04-19 09:01:52

1. It's a fantasy adventure story of a marginal person
2. Obsessive-compulsive-style symmetrical composition
3. I especially like the perspective of looking down from directly above (that is, to make the picture two-dimensional)
4. Continue to be obsessed with the cable car (anyway, it is necessary to Make the picture two-dimensional!)
5. Still love saturated candy colors (but the desert island can't be too bright, so it limits the play)
6. Still has a sense of rhythm, still has a very interesting dubbing
7. Well-structured follow-up The programming is the same - the flashback starts, the flashback ends - it's so cute
8. Under the fantasy appearance, there are still quite traditional themes: fascism/violence/brainwashing, love/friendship/humanity
9. The last poem about cherry blossoms (haiku ?) touched all (Japanese) human beings, so cute.
10. I really want to know what the three (dogs) whispered when the little prince said goodbye to spots and officially domesticated chief. Even though I didn't understand it, I was so moved that I almost cried...

It's still the familiar Wes Anderson, with a little quirky cuteness.

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Isle of Dogs quotes

  • Chief: That kid is gonna get us all put to sleep. Euthanized. We won't find the dog, but we will die trying.

    Rex: Not a bad way to go.

  • Chief: Rex! King! Duke! Boss! You made it!

    Rex: What happened to you?

    Chief: I took a bath.

    Rex: What, he's got soap?

    Chief: Just a little.

    Rex: You're too fluffy.

    Chief: We played fetch.

    Rex: With a stick?

    Chief: With a hunk of rubber radiator tubing.

    Rex: And you brought it back to him?

    Chief: Yeah. He's a good boy.

    Rex: Don't you tell me that! I was the one that tried to make you be loyal to him in the first place!

    Chief: Stop, *stop*! This is the rendevous! Where's that trash-tram taking you?

    Rex: You think we booked this flight through a travel agent? We were fighting for our lives in a high-velocity trash-processor while you were getting scrubbed and brushed!

    Chief: Jump!

    Rex: Where?

    Chief: Here!

    Rex: When?

    Chief: Now!

    Rex: Why?

    Chief: *What*?