Wes Anderson's latest dream.
Orange-red rural houses. Golden wheat field. Girly skirt. Military uniform of the Boy Scouts.
Like every previous film by Wes Anderson, a warm, serious and lovely fairy tale.
People can't help but laugh. Comfortable and cozy.
And there are bursts of sadness behind the humor.
On a small island called New Penzence, Sam, an orphan boy who escaped from the Boy Scouts, fell in love with the rebellious girl Suzy and ran away. From the boy scout camp commander to Suzy's parents to the police sergeant on the entire island For this reason, the residents have spent a lot of time searching for the footprints of the two. The two lived in the wild like Adam and Eve. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, and they were caught by a group of people searching for them. Suzy is taken home by angry parents, and Sam is temporarily staying at the sheriff's house because his adoptive parents are unwilling to accept him back home. After returning home, the resentful Suzy exposed the fact that she had an affair with the sheriff in front of her mother, and the lonely sheriff gradually developed a father-son relationship with Sam who was temporarily staying in her home. Just as Sam was about to be sent to the orphanage, the boys in the Boy Scouts decided to rescue the pair of mandarin ducks. While Suzy's mother met with the sheriff, Suzy's father took Suzy away and rescued Sam during the drunken night.
The group of people rowed and escaped to Fort Lebanon, which is across the water from the small island. The two even held an unrecognizable wedding under the auspices of a boy scout cousin. However, at this time, a group of people, including the female staff of the orphanage who came to accept Sam, have found their footprints and traced them here. At this time, they encountered a rainstorm that had not happened in a century and caused the flood to break down the dam. All of them fled to the local church. Refuge-----That's where Sam and Suzy met a year ago. People from all walks of life gathered together. The staff of the orphanage insisted on taking Sam away. At this time, the sheriff, who had moved with compassion, stepped forward to stop it. Suzy's parents quarreled with the boy scout officer, and the whole church was suddenly chaotic. As a group...at this moment, the young couple who had hid in the church earlier saw they had nowhere to go, and fled to the roof of the church together. At this time, the rain was getting worse and worse, and the two were forced to climb to the top of the church tower. The sheriff hurriedly stepped forward to prepare for rescue. Just as the two kissed and said goodbye to each other and prepared to jump hand in hand, the sheriff appeared in time and asked the staff of the orphanage to tell Sam through the walkie talkie that he wanted to adopt him. The young couple looked at each other with a smile, and agreed to the decision of the sheriff. At this time everyone finally ushered in a happy ending.
This film is Wes Anderson’s latest work in 2012. There is no shortage of his old man, Bill Murray, who plays Suzy's father, and Jason Schwartzman, who plays the funny cousin of the Boy Scouts. (The two have worked with Wes Anderson the number of times. They are all ranked in the top three, of course, the first place is Owen Wilson. In fact, I would like to see Luke Wilson.) The remaining characters are all big names, Bruce Willis as the unsmiling sheriff, and Edward Norton as the daredevil. The boy scout battalion commander, and the Oscar actress Tilda Swinton, who plays the stubborn orphanage worker. In Wes Anderson's film, you don't need too much acting skills, tepid performances are enough.
I've seen Wes Anderson's "Trenbaums", "Crossing Darjeeling" and "The Great Fox Papa" before. Each is a fairy tale with soft colors, sadness and joy. When you see the warm yellow tones and humorous characters in his film, you will feel like you are reading a children's book. He will let you put down all the fear and anxiety in reality, and let you temporarily forget the wars of real life. Flying, you want to live in his story. And when you see those sad stories in the film, you will feel that what he is telling you is a fairy tale in the adult world, where time cannot go back, the lost is irreversible, innocence and willfulness are The biggest sin.
Wes Anderson is always accustomed to telling mixed stories in a world of yellowish tones and ease and exquisiteness. The characters in these stories either experience pain, self-exile, or experience hardships and pains before they truly grow. Just like in "The Trenbaums" and the same rebellious Margot cut off his little finger, in this film Suzy endures the pain and blood and asks Sam to wear earrings made of fish hooks for himself, only through the hands of others. ; And in "Crossing Darjeeling", the three brothers who have not contacted each other for many years also came together after their eldest brother Francis suffered a serious car accident. After the process of self-exile, I finally got rid of the burden of life and caught the train to a new life.
Although Wes Anderson's stories always carry depression and sentimentality at the same time, most of the endings he left to the audience are happy and optimistic. His films are like dreams in the warm sunshine of autumn, where he does not hesitate to tell you one by one childish and serious fairy tales. There are tears and pain, but there must be no despair.
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