A family just like yours

It is difficult to choose just one movie as your favorite, especially if you are a film addict like me. There are many film directors i like, and while some of them let me down sometimes there is one that always releases superb films, Wes Anderson. The very first Anderson movie i watched is also my favorite one and is The Royal Tenenbaums.

I remember i was young, i must have been eleven or twelve years old, and i was in that stage where you have something new (cable television) and you want to use it all day long. So for a few months my obsession was to watch movies every Sunday in HBO. One night i caught this movie and i laughed a lot. At that time i thought it was a great comedy, but nothing else.

Years later and having watched the film many times i realized it was one of my favorites. I liked the story, the characters, the filming crew and even the soundtrack (its songs are regulars on my mp4).

The plot of this film is really simple and likeable. The story of a dysfunctional family that lives their worst (or best) moment when the patriarch says he is about to die and wants to redo all the bad things he did to his family. Since it’s a comedy and a drama you can find it sometimes funny and sometimes heartwarming which is really cool.

I guess that what i really like about this film is that it helped me discover a great director, good actors and awesome music.

Here is one of my favorite scenes: