Director Wes Anderson's new film "Moonrise Kingdom" this year is full of personal style: wild ideas, colorful images, and a deeply sad and heartwarming theme that hides behind it.
The young male and female protagonists living on the fictional island are full of despair about their lives, so they plan an elopement. The feelings between the children of this age are natural and pure, and the mutual love at first sight is also out of the mutual sympathy of "the same world and fallen people". In stark contrast to the bright tone of the film as an illustration, the lives of the rest of the main characters can be described as gloomy and obscure. The boundless frustration of the Boy Scout battalion commander (Edward Norton), the loneliness of the police officer (Bruce Willis), and the detachment and confusion of the heroine's parents point to the reasons for the hero and heroine's desperate attitude - absurd chaos, lack of order adult world.
This fled storm gradually reached its climax in a sudden storm. The whole town gathered in the church to shelter from the rain, and this church was supposed to stage the stage play of Noah's Ark. In the Book of Genesis, it is recorded that Jehovah saw that the world was deteriorating and that the sins of man were so great that he decided to destroy everything with a flood. At the same time, he chose Noah to build an ark to preserve the hope of life. The small church in the storm is full of the meaning of the ark, and the sentient beings who used this ark to escape the disaster also obtained a certain rebirth after the wind stopped and the rain stopped.
The growth of children is like learning a symphony. As the movie begins, it only needs to merge the melody of each instrument in an orderly manner, while the real adult world is often so messy. These adults conquered their weaknesses one by one in this crisis - the battalion commander took on the important task of organizing everyone to escape at the time of crisis, the police adopted the hero without hesitation, and the girl's parents finally dared to face the crisis of the family. Even the hard-hearted social worker agreed to open up to the male protagonist's behavior... All this is exactly what adults should be responsible for in this world.
The author and director are full of tenderness for these two neglected children from beginning to end, and the steps they take in the desperate moments of their respective lives are the symbols of courage and innocence in their hearts. Some people say that this movie is about the pure love of teenagers, which is certainly part of it. But I think that the movie is more about the immortal fantasy, longing and hope of young people, just like the last scene where the two of them built a pure land by the quiet bay at the northernmost tip of the island - the Moonrise Kingdom.
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