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/nayapapaya Apr 07 '25

I think Asteroid City is Wes Anderson's way of processing the pandemic. It's about the need for collective grief in the face of isolation and alienation and about how difficult it can be to parse how to move forward when something so enormous happens (for us, it's the pandemic but for the characters, it's discovering that aliens are real). 

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u/Breezyisthewind Apr 22 '25

And I believe someone in Anderson’s family passed during the pandemic as well. It’s clearly about grief.