The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

[poliphilo]

The critics gave this one a hard time, but I thought I'd like it and I did.

It's not laugh-out-loud funny, but it keeps up a constant drizzle of tiny, small absurdities and sight gags. And of course it stars the great Bill Murray, who gets quieter and more mesmerisingly watchable with each succeeding film.

Wes Anderson (too many Andersons in Hollywood already!) is a great stylist. He creates zany, alternative universes, only a little off to the side of the one we all know and love. You could lose yourself in this one.

If Life Aquatic isn't eventually elevated to the status of cult classic I'll eat my patented Zissou diving helmet with special built in bunny aerial for the reception of music underwater.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Why don't you like him?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Far as I'm concerned, he's always got a smirk on his face, even when he doesn't.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You have a point.

His early performances were very smirky. And those were the sort of characters he played- self-confident, wise-assed jerks.

But recently he's gone out of his way to do something very different. It's as if he were setting out to be the polar opposite of Jim Carrey and that whole bunch of mugging, prat-falling comics.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

have you seen "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind"?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I have. And, yes, it shows that Carrey can turn in a very quiet performance when he wants to. I wish he'd do it more often.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

so do i.

[humblenarrator.livejournal.com]

i loved the truman show for that reason, also.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When the Truman Show first came out I thought it was far-fetched, but as Reality TV continues to take over the globe it's starting to look like a documentary.