'Asteroid City' is the closest Wes Anderson has come to explaining his distinct visual aesthetic.
Editor’s Note: The below contains spoilers for the Asteroid City. There is no filmmaker working today quite like Wes Anderson. He has plenty of imitators, including those who make hollow recreation of his style using the scourge that is AI, but he remains a true original without compare. His latest film, the deceptively immense yet precisely focused Asteroid City, is perhaps his most dense film to date.
RELATED: 'Asteroid City's Maya Hawke & Rupert Friend on the Way Wes Anderson Directs and Doing One More Take "For the Pleasure" However, the way that Anderson put the two in conversation with each other in Asteroid City is both the most uncompromising he has been with exploring this and the most open he has been in explaining it. Some of it comes down to the aforementioned dialogue, but it is also the way scenes are cut together. The characters we all see behind the scenes, namely in the actors and the director working together, are desperate to use this story to cut through to something more profound and personal.
The more he has dug deeper into this, possibly alienating some who may have already tapped out on his distinct approach, the more it feels like Anderson has come to realize why it is that he does this. Love him or hate him, this is the filmmaker being what is perhaps more authentic than he has ever been. He has always been sincere, but this is something more.
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