Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012) by Henrik S — 18 Feb 2014

Quiet a lovely story but I found this to be (arguably) Anderson's most psychedlic and inaccessible work to this day, that is, if one takes his early caper days (Bottle Rocket) as anything to go by.

Whenever the film focused on the peripheral search for the lost children and ginger balance of conscience, duty and guilty that run through the veins of all the protagonists to a degree, the film is quite entertaining in a prosaic sort of way, humorus and witty.

Yet, the passages concerned with the two children and their quest for independence, fulfilled youth and paradise are remeniscent of Peter-Pan and Garden Eden panorma's (quite direct I dare say, for example Suzy reading to the boy scouts just like Wendy tells stories to the Lost Boys in Neverland and the loss of innocence by the shore, which depicts the inherited sin).

Still, an amazing cast, lovely & magical showdown and cinematography (let alone the fab OST) make this another good Anderson, albeit a tad too lyrical for my taste.