: At its heart, it is a story of young love and childhood innocence facing the "trauma inherent in society".
: Reviewers from The New York Times note that the adult characters—including Suzy's unhappy parents and a lonely local cop—often seem more lost than the children they are trying to "rescue". Moonrise Kingdom
Released to near-universal acclaim, Moonrise Kingdom is not merely a film about first love. It is a wry, heartbreaking, and exquisitely composed thesis on the chaos of being human in a world that demands order. It is a film that asks: What happens when two emotionally feral children decide to burn down the village (sometimes literally) to escape the phoniness of the adults who claim to care for them? : At its heart, it is a story
★★★★½ (5/5) Best paired with: Canned dog food (Sam’s favorite), a bottle of Cozi Apple juice, and a thunderstorm outside your window. It is a wry, heartbreaking, and exquisitely composed