vincefabrizio
Life Aquatic is a beautifully composed film with a great story. The artistic value is very unique. Like all Wes Anderson movies, it has colors that really pop, very symmetrical shots, and amazing stop motion scenes. The movie was super entertaining and funny. For educational value, you wont learn anything about boats or sea junk, but you watch a guy give up his life to work on a ship and travel the sea. And i think the lesson there is that in life, sometimes you just have to give up all your stuff and travel the sea. To be happy you cant always play it safe. On the surface, the movie is about claiming revenge on the jaguar shark that ate Esteban. But the real story is about a dad connecting with his son and learning to care about others. Pretty awesome movie.
franciscollobet
Hegel once said: "The beauty of nature is only a reflection of the spirit, a beauty that is not perfect." That is achieved by Wes Anderson, in one of the last scene of this film. It helps the film with its purpose. The purpose of this film is to make ignorant people believe that they are watching a great movie, and of course, they aren't. By the end of this film there is a beautiful scene, that can only be described as "masterful and magical". This was a clear example of Mr. Anderson finally achieving Hegel's view of art, unfortunately this only lasts for about a minute, because if it didn't, the movie would have been way better.In great films such as Fellini's "Prova D'orchestra" or François Truffaut's "Le dernier metro" great filmmaker were able to show us how to make a true glorification of art and life. In "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Wes Anderson shows us that he thinks he knows a lot about oceans, but he clearly doesn't know (or care) anything about neither life, nor art.The plot revolves at Steve (Bill Murray), an oceanographer. Steve believes that he has enough talent to become a director, and he's wrong (Just like Wes Anderson!). After the death of his friend, Steve will go, and hunt, the creature who killed him, while shooting a documentary about it. His crew will be joining Steve for his little adventure. As in every story, things start happening. Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson) joins them. Ned may, or may not, be Steve's son. Steves wife, Eleanor Zissou (Angelica Huston) believes that Steve is taking advantage of Ned, and leaves him. And Steve's friend, Klaus (Willem Dafoe), becomes jealous of Ned. And of course, Ned needs a love interest, because, why not? A reporter called Jane Winslett-Richardson (Cate Blanchett) is a very important part of this movie (because she's Cate Blanchett, and you can't have a movie without Cate Blanchett).Murray and Wilson are uninspired, and so is director Wes Anderson. The film is always trying so hard to succeed, and because of this, it never does. Of course the movie has some funny parts, but they're not enough foe forgiving Anderson the rest of the film. "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is shallow, unoriginal, and almost completely not arstistical. Mr. Anderson is probably proud of this mess, with the excuse that it's a very strange film, and everything. But let me tell you Mr. Anderson, you have made a few good movies, but most of them are bad, and yes, most of them are strange (this one isn't), but they don't have the strange magic of Woody Allen, Luis Buñuel, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, David Lynch, or even Tim Burton! Many people call Wes Anderson a genius, well most of them have never seen Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio De Sica, and many other great and more important filmmakers in their entire lives! So, Mr. Anderson, you are mostly a bad director. Good luck with your "Life Aquatic".
