tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post7990499375552889334..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Wes Anderson vs. the Trust Fund Marxists + 10 Classic films for fans of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-18078746389956034852017-02-17T17:20:35.285-05:002017-02-17T17:20:35.285-05:00Just as films about the future are always about th...Just as films about the future are always about the present, so it goes for films about the past, and revisiting TGBH two years after the fact (and in light of the rather horrendous turn of events post 11/8) I am not struck by the feeling that the world Anderson was mourning was not some fantastical Europe of yesterday but of today's America. I think Anderson (just like that other Anderson, Paul, with his vastly under-appreciated and misread Inherent Vice [under-appreciated and misread on my part, not yours]), as with all great and sensitive artists, had an inkling that something wicked this way was coming. Ricky Garzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06588455505354462239noreply@blogger.com