This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I wrote earlier this week about my Grand Theory of Wes Anderson (read it here at Moviejawn.com!) and I am pleased that Asteroid City aligns with that thesis in every layer of the story.
The play-within-a-play structure here and the quarantine aspects of the plot fold in on each other, containing themselves inside of space and time. The movie opens with a television screen (a box), something that confines movies (especially in the 50s, given aspect ratio differences). The boxes…