Wes Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom

THE REVIEW

I read MorenoBottesin's review from 2012 with all the related comments here on DeBasio, but seeing the movie today I forgot both things, I swear on my word as an ex-Giovane Marmotta...

“Piove governo ladro”, even if it's an overused joke, I’ll put it in anyway because the Government, understood as the sum of all institutions, is the cause of most of the evils afflicting countries in the world, and let's leave it at that or else we’ll never finish. Anyway, the movie opens during a rainy day and today, by pure coincidence, it’s also raining in my Venice and we'll see that the meteorological aspect will have its relevance as the film progresses (ehm, although I’m currently in Morocco I know it's raining at my home and if you don’t believe me, check it out for yourself...) as the saying goes “it always rains on the wet,” and this will be my last cliché relating to rain, I promise on the word of an ex-GM!

As usual, I won't dwell on the plot (you’ll find plenty of it wherever you want, ehm bizzeffe is a word of Arabic origin “bizzef” just for the record), but I want to share my thoughts starting by saying that we find ourselves in '65 on a little island where there is a scout camp, from which ehm, the twelve-year-old pipe-smoking orphan Sam escapes or resigns unbeknownst to almost everyone. I know no one will care, but in my little way, I was also a lupetto scout at that age, ehm, for just three days, since on an outing with the rest of the scouts we did an eco-cleanup of a wood and I caught a solemn cold with fever and sore throat that made me lose all desire to continue with that semi-military experience and well, in short, the small but intelligent Sam decides to go into hiding with his peer Susy after a long correspondence between the two...

In the film, the character that struck me the most is the stupid cop (by his own admission), lover of Susy's mother (played by Bruce Willis), very understanding, so much that he wants to become, after many adventures (spoiler alert) the adoptive father of the orphan Sam. One last thing about the plot without too many spoilers, I have to say that I found the marriage with abbreviated rite excellently written, compliments to WA and Roman Coppola (one of the sons of the great master FFC) who here assists in the subject and screenplay as he did in the previous film from 2007 which is “The Darjeeling Limited” that I’ll try to watch as soon as possible.

I don't know but it seems more like a film for kids than for adults, I mean if I had watched it when I was a scout, I would have appreciated it more, not that I didn't like it now eh? because more or less I've always remained a child at heart.

Ok, one last indispensable (at least for me who loves Wikipedia) thing, wiki says that in Denmark the film was banned for those under uh, 7 years old and I won’t add anything else or else I’ll start cursing...

Another indispensable thing (what a nice term) in the soundtrack is the song by Françoise Hardy “Le Temps de l'Amour” from 1962.

Ah yes, I almost forgot, this uh, “review” is dedicated to a friend I never met, Manuela L.