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movie review - Moonrise Kingdom

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.10.15

This is a story of two young people falling in love in a tiny island community. They run away to be together and in so doing through the adult world into chaos. The cast is superb, the tone is spot on (it's a Wes Anderson movie, an that is not always guaranteed), and the cinematography is perfect. The story takes you on an increasingly dangerous trip as a hurricane closes in and the star-crossed lovers generate problems of their own that will limit their chances of weathering that (or anything else). I really like a story that gives characters life and something to do.

Easily the best film I've seen this year, and probably the best I've seen in a while.

Strongly recommended. A favorite!

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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.