Bottle Rocket (1996)
7/10
not totally my cup of tea, but the movie is good!
8 July 2020
Bottle rocket is a coming-of-age type of film, into the beggining of adulthood and taking control of your life. one of the friends have problems to grow up, the other seems he already did. this is the confrontation throughout the whole film: two guys that, at this point, are going into different paths. Then yeah, dignan has crazy ideas the whole time and there's bob that also has problems with family. the movie follows three guys with issues and feeling dettached from society to try making something big.

i like wes anderson movies i can't tell otherwise: but i'm not a devote fan either. The movies i saw from him have a very distinct tone and humor - and i can't relate to that all the time. inhere i think we can already see some wes anderson future stuff: you already have the different colors throughout the scenes, the bright lights he usually uses for his films, some cuts, the dialogue that has a certain level of absurdity, into all collide in the final assault which is probably the most enjoyable part of this.

while i can understand the context i found it harder to relate with the characters. the peculiar (didn't want to say weird, lol) people that usually hang around his films are not my type of archetypes. i see his films more as a work of craft or art that i can appreciate but find harder to totally relate with it. which is fine we can't identify ourselves to everything we see.

still, bottle rocket while having flaws in terms of narrative structure and even some dialogues (i think the tone improved after) it's a nice film with more than it meets the eye and some funny things going on. i didn't love it, but i can understand why some people do. for me is a cool movie and a very important one being the beggining of the career of anderson - and if you like him or these type of comedy dramas with absurd in the middle - you probably gonna like this. i hope you do it's a good movie after all.
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