I've seen two good movies of late:
Margaret. This movie examines the complex ways we as humans deal with guilt. The inner need for atonement -- for wrongs to be made right, for justice to prevail -- is dealt with in a not-so-simple way by this teenage girl who is partly responsible for someone being killed by a bus. While I don't think her approach to making things right makes her seem any more innocent to me, I can understand the difficulty she has in doing anything to correct for such an extreme accident. This is where grace comes in: when our errors are too large for us to find any way to remedy them. A very thought-provoking movie without resolution.
Moonrise Kingdom: Explores the dilemmas of adolescence: the realization of parents' imperfections, and the rough feeling of their discipline and partial non-acceptance of their teens; as well as advanced themes of orphanhood, exclusion from peer groups, the urge to become an adult, and teens' inadequate ability to deal with conflict in ways that don't worsen the problem.Unlike Margaret, which is no doubt plot- and script-centered, this movie, typical of Wes Anderson, relies on the visual (cinomatographic elements) to deliver the message. Reminds me a bit of Jumangi's magical realism.
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