Thursday, February 15, 2018
411 - Moonrise Kingdom, United States, 2012. Dir. Wes Anderson.
Yesterday we asked, "Where is the love?"
Today Wes answers, "Here it is."
With Moonrise Kingdom, Wes has given us a love story. The story of two young people who fall in love.
Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop.
They are quite young.
But then so were Romeo and Juliet. Juliet, in fact, was thirteen. Just ask her father, Lord Capulet.
"My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet, Act I, Scene 2, Lines 8-9.
Sam and Suzy are twelve. And their blossoming relationship is sweet and pure and good. It is not consummated. They are not ready for that. It is a friendship with a connection of the heart.
Sam has met Suzy at an opera. At their church. On New Penzance Island. She plays the raven in Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde. Noah's Flood. Sam is in the audience.
When he exits the men's room, he stumbles through two racks of clothes into the girls' dressing room. He sees her. He immediately asks her what bird she is. To the exclusion of all other birds in the room. The sparrow and the dove, for example. He singles out Suzy. He likes her.
The girls go onstage. Sam returns to his seat. But the two start writing. And during their year of being pen pals, they hatch a plan. A plan to escape the jail of their lives and meet in a field and go off together.
Suzy leaves from her house Summer's End. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walt and Laura Bishop. She has three young brothers, including Lionel
Sam leaves his Khaki Scout troop. He is the foster son of Mr. and Mrs. Billingsley. Who run a professional foster home service. But he has been leaving in a tent at Camp Ivanhoe with Scoutmaster Randy Ward.
Everyone sets out in search of the two kids.
A battle ensues. Who will win the battle?
In this, another ensemble cast of stars, with two newcomers, from Wes Anderson.
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