My pal Cori put it perfectly:
“This is Wes Anderson making a
Wes Anderson movie”.
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My therapist thinks something like this:
Asteroid City is showing that nothing actually means anything— and despite that, humans expect EVERYTHING to mean something both individually and in a series, and regardless of how many times humans are presented with meaninglessness— there’s still widespread denial that the outcome is, in fact, all there is.
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Additionally, I think it’s a waste of extraordinarily talented actors and really tedious to get through, except, perhaps, if you’re tripping.