Review by WHYtehawk

Asteroid City has been painted with a broad brush to be basic, void of meaning, low characterisation, cold, puppet people filling beautiful worlds, dull, pretentious and self-indulgent. All the usual accusations lobbed at artists such Kubrick and Anderson. Same old knee-jerk reactions we got to 2001 A Space Odyssey etc. Asteroid City is to me like a minor 2001 type film. Seemingly devoid of meaning but it is there if you just look. And hilarious as well. Like TL, DR 'War & Peace' length instructions on how to use a Space Toilet.

Asteroid to me is a riot. One of the funniest films, so quirkily absurd and bizarre but also with a hot take on our place in this world, the nighmare and joke of being, the ridiculous cyclical nature of the US military industrial complex perfected in the 1950s and beyond. The facade of acting and film. The facade of society itself.

"I'm going to go get a breath of fresh air" "Alright, but you won't find it.