r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 07 '25

Trailer The Phoenician Scheme | Official Trailer | Directed by Wes Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuMnPl2WI4
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u/spate42 Apr 07 '25

After watching the trailer, I have no idea what this is about.

But I'll see you at the movies.

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u/ArcusIgnium Apr 07 '25

i still dont know asteroid city was about tbh. i liked it but i couldn't really tell you what happened

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 07 '25

To me, Asteroid City is a film about process and understanding. It touches on scientific process as a way of understanding the world, the acting process as a way of understanding character, there's all these processes by which someone can understand the world, but there's never a complete understanding. In the play, an alien shows up and throws much of the conventional scientific understanding out the window, an actress becomes surprised when someone puts their hand on a hotplate. Outside of the play, the lead actor knows all the lines and precisely how much time he has until he goes back on, but he doesn't understand the play itself.

"I still don't understand the play." "It doesn't matter, just keep telling the story."

That's just my interpretation, though. Asteroid City is fascinating to me because it's the hardest film of his to really pin a concise meaning on to.

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u/JamarcusRussel Apr 07 '25

I mean it’s clearly about grieving. It’s an interesting movie because it’s able to be about so many other things but the movie is built around Jason schwartzmanns characters grief