I want to wear mini-dresses and go on adventures, too.

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The first time I saw Moonrise Kingdom, I was downtown with my sister. We had both been waiting  to see this movie for weeks and when we were finally seated in the movie theater, we couldn't contain out girlish laughter and wholehearted excitement(who can?). I had never seen a Wes Anderson film before and this was the best impression I could ever have. Five minutes in, the movie had captured me with it's era and overall amazing-ness. Do you know that feeling you sometimes get when you see a really good movie and you can't stop thinking about it, even when you're trying to go to sleep? This movie was all about that. After seeing it once, I saw it two more times, once with a friend and once by myself, because I wanted to experience the beauty of this film just by myself for a change. Immediately after my first time seeing of this film, I bought the soundtrack and listened to it for days, my heart aching because I know it's probably too late for me to have an adventure like this. My two favorite tracks on the soundtrack are probably Cuckoo and Le Temps de l'Amour by Françoise Hardy. Especially the latter; it makes me want to dance with my eyes closed and sip peach juice, or something else fanciful like that. 

The costumes are another thing that caught my eye along with everything else in this film. I've always been interested in clothing from different eras and it's not often that movies set in the past hit theaters(especially an amazingly filmed one like this). The '60s for me is made up of the stereotypical things: go-go boots, eccentric mini-dresses and big hair. The thing I love about Moonrise Kingdom is that it showed none of that. This shows how it was to really live in this era, in a small, normala( yet not normal)town away from the fads of the time. I love this film so much, and somehow, seeing it three times isn't enough. I miss it terribly.

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