Grand Budapest Hotel

In Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson did a wonderful job of producing a comedic film in the 1930's with specific camera choices. Being complied of flat compositional frames to evoke a humorous response, there was a story that unfolded about Zero, a boy's past and his viewpoint of Mr. Gustave through their adventures of war, prison, bankruptcy, and scandals.

This thoroughly stylized film, different from other Wes Anderson films, noticeably carried its narrative through the sharp contrast of overly colorful and adorned hotels to the dull prison that M. Gustave is transported to. Creating the whole world to be presented through his eye, we see a different world that Mr. Anderson presents for us. A fictional world, but true to us as they speak to the camera the way the book shows the plot to the reader as the memory of M. Gustave is maintained in time through the reading of the girl.

After discovering its colorful past, the soon to be demolished Grand Budapest Hotel grows in vibrancy and in beauty to remember the splendor of the past. The graceful illusion that M. Gustave gave to his treasured hotel is clear, but it does not defer from the fact that the Hotel will soon be gone.

The film is possibly a reference to how we hold the past so dear to us, a habit of not being able to let go of treasured remembrances or objects that give us hope and inspiration. Objects that only specific people see beauty in because they see the value and know the story of their past.