Asteroid City is a comedy-drama written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson, from a story he wrote with Roman Coppola. The film features an ensemble cast. Its metatextual plot simultaneously depicts the events of a Junior Stargazer convention in a retrofuturistic version of 1955, staged as a play, and the creation of the play. It is Anderson’s homage to popular memory and mythology about extraterrestrials and UFOs witnessed in the Southwestern desert in close proximity to atomic test sites during the postwar period of the American 20th century. I really had no idea about the subject of this movie but was curious. I hated every second of Asteroid City. It just didn’t make any sense to me.
Set in the 1950s, a TV host introduces a televised production of (the in-universe fictional) Asteroid City, a play by famed playwright Conrad Earp. In it, a youth astronomy convention is held in…
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