Moonrise Kingdom - Movie Review Example

Moonrise Kingdom is a comedy movie directed by Wes Anderson in the fictional European Islands in 1965. The film is a romantic story of two socially awkward teenagers Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward).The two flee from their homes and Khaki Scout camp respectively into the wild to be together in an island of Old Chick chaw off the coast. The two characters are very similar and different at the same time. They are both running away from their depressive backgrounds. Suzy is escaping her oppressive atmosphere of bitter parents and nagging brothers; she also feels unfit for her environment because her parents think that she is emotionally unstable. As of Sam, he is an orphan, leaving in the scouts camp where he is misunderstood, isolated and disliked and he longs for a change of environment. In this paper, we shall discuss one difference between the two characters, Sam and Suzy. Suzy is emotional while Sam is mechanical but still cares for Suzy, for example, he keeps on cautioning her to be careful as they walk through the woods and asks her if she is ok.

From their first encounter, at the play extravaganza, Sam sneaked out of the theatre and went backstage. In his exploration, he found some birds and Suzy was the raven of the flock. The way Sam asked Suzy which part she played showed no emotion since he asked bluntly and when he was answered, he just stood and stared back until there was an interruption of a lady who came to ask the girls to grace the stage. In the same scene, when he was asked who he was, he immediately runs away. On the other hand, Suzy is very emotional. She is always using binoculars to zoom in her microsystem which seems distance because she does not have close, personal relationships. In this scene, her hand is bandaged, and she explains that the injury was a cut from hitting the mirror out of anger. Besides that, when her fellow bird told her that Sam liked her she took the initiative to approach him by giving him a note with her address and name asking him to write to her.

When the couple meets, on the day of eloping, Sam brings Suzy the flowers but casually hands them to her with no attachment. He immediately criticizes her shoes by calling them Sunday school shoes; he lets her know that the shoes would be one of the factors slowing their journey. Later on in the day, he tells her that she smells perfume which was meant to be a compliment but came out as a statement. Well, Sam could have used other complimentary words by merely telling her that she smelt good. However, he did not. Suzy countered the statement by defending herself and said to him that it was her mothers. Later on, when the couple settled and set a camp, Sam suggested taking of inventory. He showed no interest in the background story that Suzy narrated on her items, and when she explained her theory about the books, Sam hysterically laughed which made her so angry that she cried.

However, as the movie plot builds up and the other scouts warm up to Sam he opens up and becomes expressive and emotional. The movie shows an integration of behavioral change of the couple as other characters stop discrimination against them because of their individuality. It shows the relationship between the individual's' behavior cognitively and biological reaction to the social environment.