Listen, if you don’t read any further than this… just go and watch The Darjeeling Limited on Netflix. Ok bye.

I actually watched two films on Friday…

I think it’s the lamest thing in the world but I have a walking pad in my home gym, and I’m (as usual) on a new year new me health kick, which involves trying to walk on the thing for a minimum of 20 minutes a day.

I normally watch a bit of Breaking Bad, but on Friday when I fired up Netflix it told me to watch The Darjeeling Limited, so I thought why not?

I watched the whole thing, transfixed, while walking at 6km/h on a 4% incline.

Now I know we all say we love Wes Anderson – it’s part of the photographers handbook to say we love Wes Anderson, but this movie is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling.

So please, if you haven’t already, go and watch it.

In fact, even if you have, watch it again and really pay attention to the storytelling. The point of view, the foreshadowing, the composition, how you’re always a little bit surprised at what happens next.

Of course the colours are amazing, and the framing is amazing… the unbalanced symmetry and the wide angle perspective.

Transfixed I tell you.

The scenes on the train are a total masterpiece of how to tell an interesting story in a small space, when there’s not actually much happening.

I am so obsessed with it I’m considering whether to run a one-day workshop where we study it together. I probably won’t but let me know if you’d be into something like that. I probably still won’t but maybe at least we can briefly obsess over it together in a DM.

Anyway, later that same day I watched Wuthering Heights at the cinema. It had the polar opposite effect on me. I was bored from the first second to the last, and apart from some gorgeous lighting from time to time I thought it was pretty bloody awful and maybe the worst thing I’ve seen at the cinema since the Will Smith movie Gemini Man.

Yeah, that bad.

Oh I just googled it. Same director as Saltburn. I didn’t like Saltburn either.

The Darjeeling Limited though, chefs kiss.

Thanks for reading,

Adam