Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing the Wes Anderson film “Moonrise Kingdom,” and it burned into my brain the fact that in reading Salvation hides for bright minds in need of constant nourishment of word and ideas, woven into tight narratives, and thereby, providing escape. The film’s central character is a girl with her nose firmly stuck in a book. This is the only type of girl I understand or enjoy. All of my friends are avid readers. They relate to the fact that I’ve taken books with me on every trip, everywhere, and will continue to do so because NO electronic book can equal the feel of old faithful paper and board, under the fingers of a nibble word worker, a rebel from the grammar school that none-the-less owns more copies of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style than you could shake a stick at.
A lovely girl actress, Kara Hayward plays Suzy; a pre-punk princess with hardcore intellectual and killer scissor skills. Hah! The character she plays is flawless, she feels as real as one’s own memories of being truly wild, yet utterly civilized youngster. WOW! What a character! You really gotta see this film! I mean, I don’t know what I was doing when it came out in 2012. I missed it, somehow. This is a great film. This is the HAPPY Romeo and Juliet story you always wanted to watch, set in a familiar yet alternate world, sometime in a very real 1960’s set of scenic backdrops of wooded, beachside, tented bliss… a look inside a perfectly broken yet working family structure, mother and father a business team, not lovers… but part of a righteous world where good prevails, but not without a few sweet liquid silver virgin drops of blood being shed. Ah! Viva ROMANCE!