Asteroid City came out in 2023, it's Wes Anderson's 11th film, among many other projects of shorter length, more recently 4 shorts on Netflix based on Roald Dahl short stories. Wesley Wales Anderson was born in 1969 in Houston Texas. He majored in philosophy at University of Texas at Austin. The first thing is the frame for the movie. To start out saying it's a play on TV, the writer, the actors, the TV screen. The setting of the play is another layer. Then the title credits roll and you get color. A father with 5 children, his car breaks down. It dies in front of them. The movie core is grief. The inability to speak it. The weird sequelae. The visuals are southwest, 50's. Wes Anderson has a specific look to his movies, it's unique, it's his, among many other aspects of the film. Maybe the deadpan deliveries. The way the whole thing is intricately structured. There's a knowing metafiction approach that turns many people off, usually uneducated people and ri...