Wow, such reluctance...
At the end of the day, Wes Anderson makes large-sized films about very small subjects.
It might help if you're a fan of filmmakers like Robert Altman or P.T. Anderson. Both directors make (and made) films with a broad range of characters, telling multiple stories with sometimes very little traditional plot.
The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic and The Royal Tennenbaums could almost be considered a trilogy, as they look at unusual lives lived within families which have fractured. In order for their characters to redeem themselves, they have to put their families back together first.
An added bonus is that Anderson's films are funny and occasionally touching, as well as beautifully photographed and framed with his insistence on filming them super-wide.
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