directed by: Wes Anderson
written by: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Luke Wilson
comment: 13th February, 2017
Of all the films by Wes Anderson I understand this one the least, and that's after repeted viewings during a period of many years. My standard emotional procedure with his other films (The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom) was usually that I liked them with my head after the initial screening, and only with some time passing I started to like them with my heart too.
But with Rushmore I didn't even get to the first phase. It's probably because I wasn't able to connect with the protagonist and identify what was the struggle he encountered and defeated (presumably, since I didn't get it.) His emotions are a complete and utter mystery to me. I can't tell a difference between his honest reactions and his manufactured, planned and acted out responses. Does he do what he thinks he should be doing or is he doing what he really wants to do? And here lies my problem with the film, because everything he does seems false to me, and it shouldn't, should it? And when a film gives me no sense of baseline at all, I am lost.
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