"KLIK3 Feature Film Review" Crosses Darjeeling: Let's Go, Follow Your Heart's Direction

Adelbert 2022-04-22 07:01:05

This trip across India by train is not for the legendary beauty and exoticism, nor for relaxing the tired body and mind, but for the three brothers to find the lost family and their former selves. Brother Francis, second child Peter and third child Jack have not been in touch since their father died a year ago. After my eldest brother got into a car accident, he initiated the trip and made good preparations for it. But his two younger brothers didn't seem to appreciate it very much. Peter and Jack were full of complaints about him at first, feeling that he was arbitrary, calculating, and did not act like a big brother; They were exhausted and embarrassed, and the "spiritual journey" Francis had previously emphasized didn't work.
After Francis' car accident, he misses his brother and mother so much that he initiates the trip. To be able to learn different things on the road, to be able to find my mother. Although they were on the road, they still had many worries in their hearts. Peter can't let go of his soon-to-be-born wife Alice, and Jack is always secretly monitoring his girlfriend's phone message box. Although the tone of the film is cheerful and funny, the faces of the three brothers are full of disappointment and loneliness. They are all lonely and pitiful creatures. The eldest brother is covered in gauze, the second brother is always unhappy and unable to hold his spirits, and the third child is on the rumbling train with the train attendant. Rapidly developing an exotic romance.
Although we don't know how the three brothers drifted apart and alienated each other, at least eldest brother Francis realized the value of family love and the separation between his two younger brothers, and he wanted to reunite that power. Francis made a lot of preparations for the trip, but they were overwhelmed with accidents and troubles along the way, and the seemingly chaotic trip started like this. The adventures of the three brothers along the way made people laugh. In addition to external uncontrollable factors, they also had internal strife due to various contradictions, and they fought on the train and made all appearances. They have no idea what will happen in the next second, especially in such a magical country as India.
Maybe the ideal trip to India would be more perfect and smoother than this one, without getting lost on a train, getting kicked out of a venomous snake, not having a child robbed of a leather shoe, not going to a funeral in a daze , will not encounter so many inexplicable but interesting and unforgettable things. But this is the charm of travel. Unexpected things may become precious memories in the future.
When did the brotherhood of the three come back? Is it that they threw away the bag without hesitation to save the three children who fell into the water? Or a conversation sitting around with your mother? Or is it the last three people who threw away their LV travel bags and chased the train with great strides? Maybe the family never left, but it was temporarily taken away by time, and all they have to do is to chase desperately, just like Francis, Peter and Jack desperately chased the two trains. I always look forward to travel, because I believe that the best time is always on the road, and I believe that through the journey of laughter and tears, I can inadvertently find the former self.

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Extended Reading
  • Ettie 2021-11-11 08:01:13

    Vis Anderson’s road movie, while silly jokes came out, moved me so hard. In fact, there are no very moving plot developments, they are all small details (for example, the three brothers kept secrets behind each other at first, and later they all had a tacit understanding with each other). Indian beauty, Owen Wilson's line "The people here are so beautiful" is not bad.

  • Samson 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    2008-03-22, 3 big noses under the sun

The Darjeeling Limited quotes

  • Peter: [upon discovering that Jack's ex-girlfriend left her perfume in his suitcase] Could she be gaslighting you?

    Jack: What's gaslighting?

  • Jack: Which direction did your's go?

    Francis: What do you mean?

    Jack: Your feathers... mine blew toward the mountains

    Francis: That's not right. It's not suppose to get blown away. You're suppose to blow on it then bury it.

    Peter: I didn't get that. I still have mine.

    Francis: You guys didn't do it right. I asked if you read the instructions. You did it wrong... I tried my hardest. I don't know what to do.

    Peter: I don't think Dad would've hated it.