We saw this the other night at the Broadway. I expected to enjoy it, and I did. But then of course I would like anything that looks like a Cohen Brothers movie and a Wes Anderson (who, in fact, wrote and directed Moonrise) movie got together and had a baby. Which is exactly how this movie felt.
What interested me is how much Q. and Geoff liked it. It is very stylized and more than a little absurdist. But Geoff summed things up by saying that movie somehow managed to capture how it feels to be a young adolescent male.
Did you see it? And what did you guys think?
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It did a good job of portraying what I thought Boy Scouts would be like, before I actually became a Boy Scout. I would have been a good Khaki Scout.
I saw it twice, once when I was exhausted and therefore missed intermittent bits of the first half. Therefore, I gave it a second chance and found it lovely. I thought it also gave a good picture of what it was like to be a rather secretive adolescent girl with romantic tendencies. I loved so many parts of it that I think it's just easier to say: I loved it. I loved the whole thing. With an especial love for the Benjamin Britten children's choir music, interspersed with a little Hank Williams. Lovely.
Hilarious. My favorite line comes when the dog dies and the girl asks, "Was he a good dog?" and the boy says, "Who's to say?"
I LOVED it.
Lisa B hit it right when talking about the girl. Like when she romanticizes about how being an orphan is somehow better. Our family has been quoting the boy's response when we disagree with each other: "I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about." Great movie, and Geoff's comment was quite insightful.
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