Going to India on a spiritual quest is as cliched as three bourgeois brothers bemoaning their absent “great man” father. But Wes Anderson takes the most obvious tropes and makes them resonate with deep humanity.
This film has grown for me over the years in no small part to my own greater appreciation for the spiritual and the world we cannot see. Patricia tells her boys as much.
We are so much more than our petty grievances and childhood obsessions. The Darjeeling Limited offers a true spiritual path of connection and selflessness despite our very attractive and custom baggage.