The 'Darjeeling Limited' has a strange intro movie before the main film starts called Hotel Chevalier. Wes Anderson has a real talent for creating a hip, melancholy, even socially awkward mood that is at once both tragic and endearing. Jake, the male lead childishly puts on his theme song just as his estranged lover enters the room. 'Where do you go to my lovely'(Peter Starstedt, 1969) plays almost continuously throughout the rest of the short, leaving the viewer with a bittersweet, restless sense of love and failure...It has been stuck in my head, as is the rest of the full-length film; sad, oddly content, rootless, unhappy, and yet ever-so-mildly hopeful.
Friday, March 21, 2008
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and isn't the sound track awesome?! i gave Geoff the Kinks album that had our favorite songs for Christmas. it was harder to find than we'd thought it'd be...
ReplyDeleteYou know, I didn't like the end. The only way they find "peace" is to run away from life, which is exactly what their folks did, which is what messed them up. I would say that it DOESN'T end hopefully--unlike all the other Wes Anderson movies.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of agree with Charlie...however, the overall movie was pretty enjoyable, and the music was great. Wes Anderson is so weird...
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong--it was a great film. And wes, Yes is weird.
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