Asteroid City a Wes Anderson Film | KT Review

Have you ever wanted to take a turn in someone else’s head? Well, Asteroid City by Wes Anderson makes me want to. But, I guess, movies are pretty close to letting us do that. I mean, it feels like a game with those cheap plastic toys we had as kids, whose adventures were fueled by imagination and the things you’d seen. My plastic cowboys and Indians came to an unfortunate end when their campfire (josstick in twigs) in the cactus pot got out of hand. I buried them were they met their ends.

Starring a plethora of familiar faces and accents. Tom Hanks, as Stanley Zak, who you will, of course, recognise from such roles as Forest Gump and A Man Called Otto. Then there’s Scarlet Johansson as Midge Campbell, who you no doubt have seen in numerous roles like Black Widow in the Avengers movies or Ghost in the Shell. Augie Steenbeck is played by Jason Schwartz man, a familiar face you may not immediately recognise from Fargo and, more recently, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. And the Roadrunner, who beep beeps his way through the movie just like in the cartoon.

Asteroid City Review Conclusion

Doesn’t matter, just keep telling the story.

-Schubert Green, Asteroid City-

It’s the kind of movie where you need to look beyond the people, you’ll see so much more. Everything is so exact and interesting and familiar. There are scenes that would make great wall art. And others you’d swear we’re depicting other movies. Maybe I’m reading more into things than are meant to be there but isn’t the point of art, to evoke an emotional response? To make you think about what you see and to see things you weren’t thinking about but will be now for the foreseeable future.

It’s a very good movie, in a very familiar setting, with an expectation of something that never happens. And yet, neither you nor the movie are 100% certain what that thing is.

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