This is everyone's favorite hipster movie of the moment, so naturally, I am not as enamored. The prepubescent love story is shallow at worst and stylistic at best - riding on the flimsy, optimistic notion that a sound relationship is built upon connecting with a romantic partner who is as fucked up as you are. The two child leads are charming and winsome solely because they are children made to speak in the awkward, disaffected patois that Anderson's grown-ups use. Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward certainly play their parts well, but after that one moment of overlapping perhaps improvised dialogue when Sam and Suzy meet in the field, he comments on her Sunday school shoes, she says they're not exactly Sunday school shoes, he gives her flowers, she says "thank you" in a normal, flattered, girl voice, I thought the film would start showing them as kids and not just some ideal of star-crossed lovers. The stylized slo-mo bits are quite beautiful - Suzy kissing Sam's hand after they get married, Suzy blowing a kiss out the window - but there really isn't much else holding the two together. The movie shows some EFFECTS of Suzy's "emotional disturbance" but never the causes. As such, her mysterious rebel appeal is mostly visual - the everpresent blue eye shadow, the white knee socks, her chaste skivvies. This young girl is made desirable through oversexualization, not any redeeming character traits.
July 6, 2012Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moonrise_kingdom/
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