There is no doubt that this is a film that deeply imprints Wes Anderson's personal imprint. Weird characters, dark humorous sadness, unchanging clothes, unrestrained imagination, strong colors, meticulous composition, matching music, subtle metaphors... After all, this is his seventh self-directed and self-made film. A feature film; he kept his style while improving, and that adult fairy tale tragicomedy appealed to me more and more. But such a creative film is bound to require meticulous conception and polishing. I hope he can endure loneliness, work slowly and work hard, and seek quality rather than quantity.
The film can be understood in three layers. The first is the feeling of first love. From encounters to correspondence, this is the memory of many people; from elopement to tongue kiss, this is what many people want to do but fails; from witnessing marriage to almost dying of love, it is a fairy tale plot. The film makes people relive the wonderful first love of the two little ones without guessing, and also YY has the joy of breaking the shackles and making their dreams come true. The second is the attitude towards the so-called "problem children". Sam and Suzy were unanimously considered "abnormal" in the film, so they were abandoned, neglected, disciplined and treated. But Sam's parents are dead, and Suzy's family is separated, apparently their loneliness is largely caused by a lack of love. So despite their extreme actions, such as stealing books and hurting people and running away from home, it's easy for the audience (as the director intended) to point the finger at the callous parents and callous social welfare. Finally, fundamentally speaking, the film shows the contradiction and compromise between the adult world and the children's world. Children are simple, adults are sophisticated; children are impulsive, adults are hypocritical; children are united, adults are lonely; children are weak, adults are self-reliant. Children want to grow up, adults want to be rejuvenated; children want to be unrestrained in love, marriage and pursuit of dreams like adults, adults want to take off their masks and keep their childlike innocence like children. Wes Anderson is mocking the rules of the adult world, which seem reasonable but actually suppress human nature.
The background music uses many works of British composer Benjamin Britten, such as "The Youth Orchestra Guide", "Noah's Ark" and so on. The director even said that Benjamin's music set the basic tone of the film. The main music of the film is composed by Alexandre Desplat, who wrote "The Heroic Weather - Conditions of the Universe" which contains 7 chapters throughout the whole play. The seventh part "After the Storm" played at the end of the end credits, Decomposing a piece of music into different musical instruments is both knowledgeable and exciting.
Against the backdrop of all the big names, the two 12-year-old newcomers and young actors did not appear to be young, and the director really knew people.
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