Really good
I’m not writing to recommend you see Darjeeling Limited. Do what you want.
I am writing to recommend you drink this energy drink Bacchus-D that Whit and I have started buying a lot since Darjeeling Limited. It looks just like the painkiller they drink in the movie. Also it’s delicious, it keeps you up and it’s only $1.
L
P.S. If you’ve know me and Whit, you’d probably say “of course they like Darjeeling Limited.” That’s why I can’t recommend the film. It’s almost by definition that a Wes Anderson film is a thing we love.
When you build up a trust for somebody that means you’re willing to assume they’ve put a lot of time and thought into making their work as good as it can be. So if you don’t like it at first, maybe that means you haven’t thought about the issue as much, or as deeply, as they have.
Getting to see the work from their point of view is a learning process. Its sometimes hard, and sometimes you realize “no, they just fucked up”, but its also the only way I think I’ve ever had a rewarding experience with art.
In other words, I don’t go to Wes Anderson movies to judge them, I go to change myself. It’s very nice to have a big-time filmmaker I feel that way about.