Moonrise Kingdom Analysis

Moonrise Kingdom: The Importance of Trust
Moonrise Kingdom, along with other texts, advocates for the idea that a lack of acceptance in one’s life can lead to an increased desire for an accepting social environment, ultimately resulting in one becoming more dependant on others to achieve this desired environment.
Wes Anderson sets movies in a world of immature adults and mature children; Moonrise Kingdom uses this to reflect a tween’s frusturation in an unaccepting environment. Wes Anderson is known for his quirky films where everything is surreal and unexpected and uses of colors as well as his cinematography creates a fairytale-like world that captivates the viewer. Anderson’s movie The Royal Tenenbaums parallels his movie Moonrise Kingdom

When caught at the beach, Sam opens the tent, sees the search party, and zips the tent back up. When Suzy’s dad lifts the tent, it is revealed Sam and Suzy holding each other closely. Suzy’s mom is required to yank her daughter away from Sam to split them up. This shows how dependant they are on one another, and how much they feel as if they cannot live without each other. Near the end of the movie when Captain Sharp asks Sam to live with him, Sam turns to Suzy for approval. She is filmed nodding her head at an eye-level perspective from Sam’s point of view, with a close-up view of her face. This shows how much Suzy’s opinion matters to Sam; he only responds to Captain Sharp when Suzy nods her head in approval. By enlarging her face from Sam’s viewpoint, it shows how important she is to her and how he is uncomfortable changing his life unless she approves of it. At the end of the movie, Sam chooses to live with Captain Sharp and is able to see Suzy from time to time. The dependency on one another for a better environment lasted until the very end, and ultimately, it paid

Although the text never specifically states it, it is implied that the narrator, who is revealed to be Tyler Durden as well, ends up in a hospital. This shows how even though they put an immense amount of effort into attempting to obtain the life they wanted, they did not succeed. In fact, it seems as if his life was better at the beginning of the book than at the end. The children in Moonrise Kingdom have an opposite outcome; both Sam and Suzy end up with a better life than they had at the beginning of the movie. This shows how dependency on others to attain a happier environment will not always prove to be successful. The Fight Club narrator’s dependence on a social movement for fulfillment didn’t work, perhaps because it was predicated on violence. The club supplied a temporary feeling, whereas something like love provides a temporary. Therefore, the children in Moonrise Kingdom are able to continue their content through love, but the narrator in Fight Club is unable to fulfill his happiness permanently through