The Darjeeling Limited. Good stuff as always. In retrospect, it wasn't my favorite Wes film. On the other hand Natalie Portman was phenomenal. Well at least phenomenally hot as always (still not as hot as Bald Natalie in "V for Vendetta" tho). And Adrien Brody was really good, but he always is. One scene that stuck out in my mind as one of the more powerful moments in the film was when Owen Wilson was removing his bandages. If you saw it, you should remember. For some reason that scene itself exuded raw emotional content, with no dialogue. You gotta like that.One other point that this film illuminated for me, was the creative imput of Wes' brother, Eric Chase Anderson. I had seen the name before, and remember him doing much of the illustrations/wallpaper for The Royal Tenenbaums, but the larger than life plug at the beginning of this film (for the wildlife luggage i think was his credit) really made me think about him and so I checked out his work this morning. In reality, I think it is more Eric's influence as set designer that gives Wes' films there general flavor. Granted music has a huge part to play, as well as cinematography, and dialogue not to leave that out of the loop, but those images we remember about Wes' films are usually marked by Eric's creative style...
Anyway, go see it if you haven't. And if you have seen TRT or Life Aquatic, go see those too.
Plot- 3
Directing- 4
Acting- 3
Cinematography- 4
Gore- n/a
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