Bottlerocket - 7

This may be my new favorite Wes Anderson film. It is more story driven, rather than character driven like his other film. But it has less stark contrast between characters and plot. In most of his films the characters are so eccentric that they start to take over. In Bottlerocket, they are eccentric but the connection between the characters and the story flows better. For example, in The Royal Tenenbaums, the story is determined by the psychological obsessions that the characters have, this is both funny and sad, and it works. In this film, one is better able to relate to a slight obsession with an adventurous life. We all have a sense of living an adventure, we also have a better sense of wanting to stay out of jail to do it, the characters in this film, well...they do and they don't. One thing to remember, what you ought to do and what you actually do, should be a part of one's thought process. That is what is meant by the phrase, "a danger to themselves and others."