It definitely has a sort of earnest respect towards it.

Yeah it's almost like you've missed the point of the movie by making it about yourself.

@@bkbj8282 you sir, have made this very comment section about yourself. Leave that man alone!

​@@bkbj8282you good sir are a hypocrite and I would suggest that you keep your abominable thoughts to yourself

It’s true seeing an art form done perfectly is 😮

That quote haunts me. Thomas Flight hits on the brevity with which the raw expressions of pain pass in Grand Budapest. Despite being only two sentences, they've lingered with me and carry the entire weight of nostalgia the film achieves.

Also the fact that the first and last scenes are never given a date. It could be 1990, or 2010 or 2090 for all we know

Also the fact that he manually handles physical prints of the photos that he subsequently shows on the screen 😁

I think the color palette is Zero's memory, painting his past with nostalgia.

It's a beautiful story about stories and how stories are made and how people consume stories and what meaning they have

Beautifully said 👏

I think what's kinda sad is that, regardless of whether they won the war or not, the Nazis still destroyed the beautiful past that Zweig clung to. It was an inevitability though. One way or another, things change. It's too bad he couldn't come to terms with that.

@@heltaku9397 I imagine that it's not merely the past that Zweig mourned, but the future as well. In these places he saw a way forward for the world, a model for what mankind could be. And what happened? It was not merely devastated but nearly exterminated. Even with the fall of the Nazi's, we still are gripping with the aftershocks of their horrendous ideology to this day. Look at how they went after gender institutions and how the bigotry there has only intensified as the past was seemingly swept from the publics mind. Look at the way that leftist politics is still treated as a bigger boogie man that actual fascists. Look at the far right rhetoric and ideology that's pervasive and on the rise across Europe and still with a stranglehold on American politics. Was he wrong? For all the good and growth the globe has done since ww2, that optimistic life that Zweig lived and saw is gone and not replaced by something better.

The pay is the only place where beauty can thrive

@@jameswood9512 I think that in todays world, everything that is wrong with it; all the horrendous things that we do, is more visible to the naked eye than it ever has been. Personally, I have found myself worrying about things happening in America, even though i live in Europe; I've found myself worrying about sociopolitical problems all over the world. If you want to see wrong in the world, you always will be able to. I don't mean to say that you should turn a blind eye to the problems of the world, or that you shouldn't have compassion for the people facing injustice, but I believe that you can see the world for what it is, and still be happy; be fulfilled. I agree that we're seeing a rise of fascist and far right movements throughout the world, but I don't believe that in order to fight it, we need to be unhappy doing so, even if it feels like a loosing battle. It's important to see your emotions, not as something dictated by the world around you, but as something dictated by you. We don't need to torture our own mental health, in order to find the will, to make positive change. Your emotions, however hard they to control, are controlled by you, and you can choose to fight with compassion for what you love, instead of hatred for the injustice. You can be loving and still fight. It is of course easier for me to say all this, when I'm not the one facing opression. I could never imagien what it must have felt like; the emotional trauma that Zweig experienced, being forced to flee his home, having his family and friends executed by the nazi regime, seeing people of his faith get put into extermination camps, seeing his books burned, seeing Europe fall. But i don't believe that there is a point in your life where you have faced too much hardship to feel happiness again. My material conditions are not great, and I live in a country with great inequality, but im still fulfilled, even though i know that my conditions are unfair, and i'm fighting for change. You can always find happiness, no feeling is final

all of his stories are stories within stories! I think Thomas has spoken to this, actually

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I'll have to take your word for it; I only lasted six minutes. But since the Criterion Collections consists of films that are IMPORTANT but not necessary GOOD, you may well be right.

Why are Wes Anderson haters so obsessed with masturbation

No offense, found it flat, boring, and charmless. Moonrise and GBH far superior

I was kinda disappointed by Asteroid City, went to see it on the second of July for my 18th birthday but it fell flat, I wanted something zany, it had wes’s cinematography but felt empty and less well written and energetic as his other works, I think Wes made it to bring his work attention since it included so many celebs, I can’t blame him because his high effort, along with that of his team, deserves huge amounts of attention and more love that I’ve seen it recieve, but it was a discredit to be honest, deserved to be just as fun as his older films

If Asteroid City is masterbatory self-indugence, then sign me up. I've only seen it once, and I could have easily missed the crucial moment. I remember waiting... waiting... knowing that Wes Anderson delivers. For me, the whole film seemed to balance upon the scene on the balcony, the two actors talking across the alley. I found the film inpenetrable until that scene. The depth of that one scene lent credence and meaning to the seeming banality of the rest of the film. In some ways the film does fall flat, but it also seems like it's supposed to. And somehow, "falling flat" doesn't seem an inappropriate description of the aesthetic.

Totally agree. For me, the bittersweet melancholy staple is Series of Unfortunate events. I actually haven't heard about those you cited, I'm definitely checking that out

Exactly! It feels like his films often bring back feelings that we remember from childhood or at least the whimsy of things children imagine up during their childhoods, a lot of them are warm, nostalgic and kind

Yes I love the happy sad movies so much

You, you get it

Totally agree. It was an exercise in film critique to an exceptional level.

People must be blind, deaf and dumb (as in stupid). This movie is about a lot of heavy themes. It's about xenophobia, fascism, misogyny, classicism - and especially about their opposites: love, acceptance, respect, loyalty and bravery. I love this movie, and it never fails to make me cry.

@@MariaVosa that’s what I’m saying!!! I feel like when people can’t identify a single extended metaphor they think it means the movie isn’t saying anything. Frustrating stuff

@@MariaVosathose things are touched on. But it’s not really “about” any of them. The movie is pretty unfocused to me.

How silly. Even if it wasn't about anything, why is that in and of itself a valid criticism? If a film is entertaining, evokes emotion, and expresses a style or beauty, who gives a shit if it's "about anything?"

@@Trenz0 preaching to the damn choir pal

Same. He is my fave one too. He is Smart. Educated. Sophisticated. Cultured. The Grand Budapest Hotel is mesmerising. And I love Budapest and its Museums and Galleries.

Wether you’re being literal about the coronavirus or figurative about fascism you’ve got the spirit of the work right but are applying it incorrectly. It’s laudable to be aware of forces in society but it’s somewhat insulting to the memories of the people who suffered under those forces in their extremes to catastrophise extremely minor expressions of those forces as though they pose as much of a threat as the ones which upturned society. Moreover it places one at risk of ignoring people suffering under far more potent extremes to which you’re not attuned. The ghosts of the past are scary but ultimately just images of what is long since dead. One’s attention is better paid to the contemporary circumstances which motivate those who threaten their revival. A small fire cannot spread if you take away the fuel keeping it burning.

Meh Camus' The Plague did it better

Unfortunately the processes people use to preserve historical places are often abused- we encase the past in amber, turning swaths of cities into museums with no life of their own. stories allow us to preserve the past without needing material relics that can stand in the way of the future.

Modern architecture really does suck with the brutalism and all

It's actually incredible how many Viennese-Jewish writers there are from this time: Paul Celan, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, Rose Ausländer, to an extent Kafka, Max Brod, Leo Perutz etc.

Hell yeh!

If you’ve not watched Primer, do it. You’ll either watch it once and hate it or will watch it multiple times lol.