Wes Anderson’s Our Town
If this were his final feature, it would be a perfect endcap for his career. He uses the tenuous movie-of-a-play-within-a-movie structure to strip back and examine the purpose of fiction. And specifically, to marvel at its ability to speak to and move us, even when abstracted far away from reality.
He has his main character quite literally step out of his own story and places the film’s emotional climax outside (the only scene that really takes place…
