"Life destroys. Art preserves."

I can’t believe it’s taken me 5 years to find this video essay. This film brought to me Stefen Zweig and a world I mourn is lost even though I’ve never known it. Zweig’s last book and autobiography “The World of Yesterday” is one of the most incredible works I’ve ever invested the time in with both it’s positives and negatives of late 19th century/early 20th Century Vienna and Berlin. Truly amazing.

This essay makes me want to watch the film again immediately, and the film makes me want to watch this essay again immediately. A neverending loop of joygrief.

We all have a door marked "Do Not Enter"...

You know movie is synonymous to "pictures", and I believe the latter is the original name given to this form of art. Wes Anderson is one of the very few directors who stays true to that original name. His movies can be enjoyed almost like slideshows, a series of well-constructed pictures with whimsical discontinuity between cuts about a scene for audience to fill the gap with their free roaming imagination. meticulous down to the very minute details about every set-up and phobic level of balance within each shot makes those "pictures" enjoyable to the same eyes over and over again, with something new discovered every single time. This shows you don't need a really ground-breaking story for a film to be engaging, you just need a ground-breaking way to tell it.

This is the best video essay i’ve ever watched. You are truly talented sir.

That was the best video i ever watched about this movie. Thank you so much for your insights !

this deserves millions of views.

Very insightful. Well done. Hello from London, England : - )

Brilliant video and movie. I lost count of how many times I watched it. Bravo!

holy shit well done and well made this essay was like a movie

Great video. Grand Hotel Budapest is fun but also filled with melancholy, as you said.

oh sick! this isn't on the wes anderson collection website. i appreciate what you have up friend

Ahhhh this was so emotional :'''

beautifully epic.

Bravo

❤️

Why can't we watch Matt Zoller Seitz's video essay on the Darjeeling Limited on youtube?

Quizás es una obra Maestra.

please do The French Dispatch deep dive