Set on New Penzance, a coastal island off New England, in
1965 Wes Anderson’s latest movie is a story of two twelve year olds pen pals
who fall in love with each other, but out of love with their self contained
world and who can blame them? Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman) complete with Davy
Crocket hat and thick horned rim specs is a very unhappy Boy Scout, hated by
the rest of the Khaki Scout Troop for no apparent reason and not wanted by his
foster parents. He leaves a resignation note with Scout Master Ward (Edward
Norton) and sets off to meet the love of his life, Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) with
the implicit intention of running away together. Suzy’s dysfunctional family
consists of her three obnoxious wee brothers and her unhappily married parents Mr
and Mrs Bishop (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) who indecently are both
lawyers. When its realised the youngster’s are missing a search party,
consisting of the Scout Master, his troop of scouts and the islands police
force Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis), (que Hank Williams; your need to see the
film) sets out to discover their whereabouts and social services (Tilda
Swinton) is informed. In the mean time
our missing young lovers are setting up camp in a tidal outlet which they
rename Moonrise Kingdom (2012). During the hubbub a dog is killed with
a bow and arrow, a scout is stabbed in the kidney with a pair of scissors and
Suzy gets her ears pierced with fishhooks!
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| Suzy and Sam |
Wes Anderson’s stage is always a completely autonomous world
of his own making, as a certain BBC comedy programme used to say ‘now for something
completely different’. The grown ups in Andersons movie completely complement
the superb feature film debuts from Gilman and Hayward. The director, and
co-writer with Roman Coppola, treats trivial
things with the utmost seriousness and serious things as if they were
completely trivial[1]
the humour is deadpan and off the wall but extremely funny. What a perfectly delightful
evenings entertainment this film turned out to be. It was a real shame there was not more people at the
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
to enjoy it.
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