Strawberries and milkshake.
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Well, the thing is, I didn’t really like my last movie review.
It was long, boring and didn’t make any point (I basically thought too much). So I gotta make up to it this time.
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Original release: 2014.
I don’t have words to describe how this movie makes you feel.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a rare masterpiece. It is not just a movie, it’s a beautiful movie. In fact, movie is so aesthetically pleasing that I consider this to be a painting to be admired rather than a movie to be watched. It’s fast, yet peaceful; dark yet funny, and highly dramatic yet very real. Art students will absolutely adore this movie.
The movie follows a plot where…. well I don’t know how to summarize it lol. There is a plot, but it doesn’t revolve around anything; it’s a strange story with so much happening at once! The movie does not have a theme. It just tells an entertaining story, and I absolutely love it. Not all movies need to have a serious plot, character development and a message. This movie has none of these. It’s just a movie, you go enjoy it and then forget about it. And it’s so fun and refreshing. It’s a light movie but it’s beautiful.
I personally think, the plot of the movie should not have been made into a movie at all. I mean, the story is such that, I think you would enjoy it more if you heard it from a storyteller, with your friends, around a camp fire. I feel it’s meant to be a mouth-told story, but the fact that the director Wes Anderson, managed to tell it visually and make it absolutely stunning, makes this movie that much more enjoyable.
The movie is fast; there are snappy chops, frequent location changes and perfect characters with on-point dialogues. But, that doesn’t take away the fact the movie telling a fictional story, so you are relaxed back even tho the story is progressing super quickly. You don’t get pulled into the story, you feel like an observer from the sidelines. I felt peaceful watching this movie, almost like, “it’s just a movie and nothing matters” vibe.
The movie is funny. It doesn’t try hard to be funny, but it succeed in making me laugh. See, I’ve watched a lot of so called, “comedy” movies, which almost always make me cringe. Those movies who claim to be funny, aren’t funny. This one doesn’t claim to be funny, but it really is. It’s rare that a movie actually makes me laugh, this one did, and I absolutely loved it. While the humor is somewhat dark and queer, it’s absolutely hilarious. You would love it.
And yeah, the characters in the movie are almost perfect and super unreal, they remind me of the color pink, and strawberry milkshakes. It’s a fairy tail in all aspects. But, within it’s dream like story, there are very relatable aspects to the movie as well. Like, the characters as a whole might not be someone you would encounter in real life, but their insecurities and emotions are very raw and real, and I could relate to it.
So all in all, its a strange, funny, light and most importantly Beautiful movie. So yeah, I liked it a lot.
The aesthetics and the plot were the highlights of the movie. I would give it a solid:
7.5/10
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