The Darjeeling Limited Review

The story of 3 brothers, one train and a spiritual experience.

’The Darjeeling Limited’ is a half comedy and half drama (from the director Wes Anderson) about three brothers, one train and a spiritual experience which will be with them for a life time. This Indian rode trip filled with the heart wrenching emotional journey of the Whitman brothers is something to experience, to say this movie is precious would be an understatement.

Francis Whitman (Owen Wilson) leads the troupe of emotionally distant brothers around the beautiful country of India, Francis is the eldest of the 3 and is recovering from a near fatal car accident. Owen Wilson plays this socially awkward brother to par, the characters quirks mesh well with Owens comedic acting style. One of Francis’ lines in the movie "I want us to become brothers like we used to be," is a line that stayed with me through the movie, he is the central character but by no means the main character.

His domineering personality makes him order his brothers food (which they hate), during the entire movie, his face is swabbed in bandages, which he got from a horrific accident while driving, even with this whole ordeal he remain optimistic and unaware of people’s emotions.

Adrien Brody plays the middle brother of the trio, Peter is a grieving son who cares affiliates of his father everywhere, like his fathers prescription glasses which leave peter near blind, the fact that peter wears these glasses frustrates Francis. Adrien plays the wary middle brother who seems to prefer the company of his little brother more so than Francis. Peters a soon to be dad, but completely unsure about the whole situation.

and then there is the youngest of the 3, Jack (Jason Schwartzman) is a man who is haunted by his ex-girlfriend, whom we only really see in the prequel short film set in Paris (played by Natalie Portman). Jack is a man who does not like to get involved, when his older brothers are bickering; he refuses to take part until he is forced to. Jack checks his ex girlfriend’s answering machine messages every time the train stops. Jack also chases after an Indian stewardess as soon as he arrives on the train.

Each brother in the film are there own selfish in considerate person, if Francis is controlling, Peter is woeful, then jack is horny.

This movie is one that I have fallen in love with, the experience these brothers go through are out of this world, this a movie I would love to own and would recommend to all who enjoy quirky movies and sweet story lines.

Needs to be watched

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