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Decarceration's avatar

Beautifully written. This is one of my favorites from Anderson, though perhaps some of that comes from being one of three brothers and dealing with some of the same issues. I think it's his artifice in production design and wardrobe that allows the straightforward emotions of his work to come out clearly in dialogue and staging, and that's why I keep coming back, even when the artifice is just too overwhelming (I was briefly not-very-enamored with The Grand Budapest Hotel, though I owe that a rewatch).

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Charlotte Simmons's avatar

Absolutely, yeah. I've seen GBH twice now, and I still can't quite pinpoint where I land on it. I think that has to do with the scope of that film specifically, together with the presentational density of Anderson's style as a whole.

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