Moonrise Kingdom
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:40 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/?ref_=nv_sr_2
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them.
I actually liked this movie. Thanks to Eunuken for telling me about it!
With a big name cast featuring Bruce Willis and Ed Norton, it's hard to imagine what these actors were thinking when they signed on for this movie.
Sam is a "very disturbed boy" in Troop 55 of the Khaki Scouts. No one really likes him.
One day he resigns and goes to run off with his pen pal - a girl who is the "difficult child" in her family.
The community goes after them. So does Tilda Swinton, from Social Services.
She wants to give the boy electroshock therapy.
The boys in the troop realize they've been really mean to Sam, and are worried that they'll lobotomize him if they find him.
Turns out, Sam is an orphan, and his foster family doesn't want him back.
The whole film is about the whole town, who didn't seem to notice or care, suddenly going on the hunt for the two missing kids when a hurricane is due to blow in.
The acting is odd, the plot is odd, everyone seems emotionless and flat, and the soundtrack is rather strange.
In fact, the whole movie is strange in an arthouse sort of way that makes you want to watch it again.
It's rare that I find a movie that I like, but I liked this one.
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them.
I actually liked this movie. Thanks to Eunuken for telling me about it!
With a big name cast featuring Bruce Willis and Ed Norton, it's hard to imagine what these actors were thinking when they signed on for this movie.
Sam is a "very disturbed boy" in Troop 55 of the Khaki Scouts. No one really likes him.
One day he resigns and goes to run off with his pen pal - a girl who is the "difficult child" in her family.
The community goes after them. So does Tilda Swinton, from Social Services.
She wants to give the boy electroshock therapy.
The boys in the troop realize they've been really mean to Sam, and are worried that they'll lobotomize him if they find him.
Turns out, Sam is an orphan, and his foster family doesn't want him back.
The whole film is about the whole town, who didn't seem to notice or care, suddenly going on the hunt for the two missing kids when a hurricane is due to blow in.
The acting is odd, the plot is odd, everyone seems emotionless and flat, and the soundtrack is rather strange.
In fact, the whole movie is strange in an arthouse sort of way that makes you want to watch it again.
It's rare that I find a movie that I like, but I liked this one.