Moonrise Kingdom and all its Wonders

Moonrise Kingdom, like all of Wes Anderson movies, is filled with quirky camera angles and artistic beyond belief shots. He is the master of symmetry, he adores to make his shots seem like paintings which you can just hang on the wall. He hardly ever uses diagonal shots, they are always straight forward 90 degree shots, not only that but he pairs these shots with symmetrical framing. Plenty of times he keeps the camera in a still while an entire scene occurs within it. for example when Sam and Suzy meet at their designated spot, the camera shows the grass as they slowly begin to appear into the screen, he does not use tracking shots, which in a way make his scenes be more artistic and powerful. Or when Sam first introduces himself to Suzy, after he walks out of the clothing wrack, which he parts perfectly in the middle, he stands there in the center and asks Suzy which kind of bird is she, it switches from a perfectly centered straight shot of Sam to a perfectly centered straight shot of the actresses in bird costumes. This creates a special kind of atmosphere that engulfs you into the scene, because we get the perspective that the characters see, so we are in way part of this conversation. You feel immersed in his movies, as if you are being part of the story, you are living it alongside the characters, at least for me, I felt that I was running away with Sam and Suzy and I wanted them to never be found.
The way he arranges the camera angles evoke a silent-film comedy, but it also creates a fairy-tale type of world, as if you are living in a painting. Also when groups face each other, we get a reverse-angle depth, moving from one symmetrical composition to another, the cutting being either 180 degree reverses or zero degree changes of angle. He sparingly uses zooms, to emphasize important scenes, this is wonderful because get to be pulled in or pushed out to get a perspective of what surrounds the scene or what goes on for the characters.

Overall Wes Anderson is a master, and i can actually say that besides Tim Burton he is my next favorite director, he creates utter magic, fairy tale worlds-like-paintings in which you hope to live in, very much like Burton. The peculiar thing is that Anderson creates light painting with some dark matter in it, while Burton creates dark worlds with a lot of light matter. I guess that is why I love them so much.