This weekend we watched an especially fun film by Wes Anderson. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was the immediate predecessor to his better-known The Darjeeling Limited.
There's a lot to love about The Life Aquatic- the stop motion animation depicting fantasy marine life, Brazilian singer/songwriter, Seu Jorge, strumming the guitar and singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese- and, of course, lots of comedy and wacky, high-seas adventure. Fans of The Darjeeling Limited will find some familiar Wes Anderson themes in The Life Aquatic, such as adult children searching for absent parents, and a quite unusual twist on the "road trip" movie.
What I particularly liked about The Life Aquatic was the way it treated the spirit of adventure. The film seemed to ask why we bother to live, to love, to hope and dream, when so often life treats us to sickness, the death of those we love, and failure. Tripping and falling, laughing and crying, Steve Zissou and his rag-tag band of marine adventurers leaves the viewer feeling that, yes, the journey of life is worthwhile, after all.
There's a lot to love about The Life Aquatic- the stop motion animation depicting fantasy marine life, Brazilian singer/songwriter, Seu Jorge, strumming the guitar and singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese- and, of course, lots of comedy and wacky, high-seas adventure. Fans of The Darjeeling Limited will find some familiar Wes Anderson themes in The Life Aquatic, such as adult children searching for absent parents, and a quite unusual twist on the "road trip" movie.
What I particularly liked about The Life Aquatic was the way it treated the spirit of adventure. The film seemed to ask why we bother to live, to love, to hope and dream, when so often life treats us to sickness, the death of those we love, and failure. Tripping and falling, laughing and crying, Steve Zissou and his rag-tag band of marine adventurers leaves the viewer feeling that, yes, the journey of life is worthwhile, after all.
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