http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/darj-d01.shtml
Directed by Wes Anderson, screenplay by Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman
Wes Anderson is an American filmmaker who has created certain expectations. He established himself as intriguing with his 1998 film, Rushmore, a stylized picture of the resourcefulness and energy of youth. With his amiable, amusing The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), about a household of child geniuses who never grow up, Anderson, however, began to run the risk of becoming a harmless iconoclast. His 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou focused on the alienation and fragility inherent in social and family relations in an imaginative but limited manner. Still, one awaits the appearance of his films with interest.
Family angst and dysfunction are some of Anderson’s signature themes. His latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, again pursues these concerns as three estranged brothers attempt to reconnect while train-traveling in India. Although exhibiting his trademark aesthetic—a stretched realism among other surreal sensibilities—Anderson’s new film is less urgent and coherent than his previous efforts.
Like the private school in Rushmore, the ramshackle New York City mansion in The Royal Tenenbaums and the makeshift sea vessel in The Life Aquatic, Anderson’s exotic train in The Darjeeling Limited plays an active role. It is the moving center of the claustrophobic world of the Whitman brothers, a trio of wealthy Americans attempting a spiritual journey after the death of their father. (“We’re just trying to experience something.”)
Francis (Owen Wilson), the eldest, has organized the odyssey in a first-class sleeper car on the “Darjeeling Limited” after a near-fatal motorcycle accident left him longing for his siblings. (The fact that the head-bandaged Francis is an uncomfortable reminder of Wilson’s much-publicized attempted suicide last August has been universally noted.) With a daily itinerary—laminated by a personal assistant—Francis imperiously orders around brothers Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman)....
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