MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:24 pm    Post subject: MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012) Reply with quote

This movie seems to be part of a new sort of cinematic experience, and I can’t describe it other than to say that while watching it, you’re always aware that this is a movie, with its own style, not a “motion picture” attempting to represent real life. There is no way that real life could resemble “Moonrise Kingdom.”

It’s not so much that this is a fanciful world being shown–though so far as I know its setting isn’t anywhere in the known world. It could be located in any of a large number of places that have wooded areas and bodies of water.

It’s more in the way events are presented as happening–highly stylized in a way real life doesn’t know how to do.

Two unhappy 12-year-olds meet up and decide to run away. Much of the movie’s charm involves their solutions to the practical problems they face in this flight.

At times the movie is in danger of bringing in saccharine moments of religiosity, preciousness, or other elements, but it never does so. In fact, it pokes gentle fun at the fascination with anything pseudo-military that is typical of Scoutmasters, among other people. It is often very funny.

An impeccably dressed young woman, for instance, is never known by any name but “Social Services,” and she proceeds to play the role of the typical social worker who is trying to look out for the best interests of a child–a part she carries off with nicely understated panache.

Well worth watching.
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