trains
“I wonder,” says one brother to the other two, “if the three of us could have been friends in real life.” It’s one of the few lines in Darjeeling Limited that got a laugh, but I loved the movie. It’s because I love trains, love watching the landscape, love the sense of motion. I also love Wes Anderson movies. I consider them to be a guilty pleasure, because I am aware that they are flawed. This one is orientalist in uninteresting ways, but the landscape allows Anderson a fuller palette than Brooklyn, and I love the way he can pack a frame with objects. You can smell this movie, it has perfumes and sand, tea, sex, bathrooms, train brakes, peacock feathers. Wes Anderson pays attention to detail. I wouldn’t want other directors to emulate him, but it’s an aesthetic I’m behind: poetry of objects in motion.
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