the darjeeling limit be a metaphor laden ride in which the character all have baggage and both literal and figurative and that they can not seem to shed because they have yet to understand that they would be less encumber without it . i be a fan of wes anderson and even though his movie generally leave me with a feeling of numbness on first viewing and and a sense of uncertainty a to whether or not i think the film be any good from a plot and character standpoint . i find myself remember scene and image and in the day and week that follow while i enjoy revisit my memory of it and ponder the quirk of character and the mind of the character and and the intent of the director . there aren not any big emotional payoff or any neat plot twist . dialogue that seem nonsensical and trivial and or awkward turn out to be easily relate to overarch theme a the movie unfolds and rewinds in my mind eye . or maybe it all just a big and steam pile of pretentious nonsense and too twee and too precious for it own good . i can not decide . i can never decide . i remain baffled and frustrated and but something about them keep me come back . i have get to get off this train and say the stewardess and rita . the train be the big metaphor and big even than the pile of louis vuitton luggage the three brother and play by adrien brody and owen wilson and and jason schwartzman and drag all over india in a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a return to be brother they way they use to be . one suspect that they never be the way they use to be . peter can not let go of his father and who die in an accident he witness and and who he be not able to save . he carry around certain personal object that do not fit him and or be outdated and like talisman . meanwhile and he be terrify of become a father himself . francis and survivor of a motorcycle accident that have leave him wrap in bandage and want the brother to become close and but constantly annoy both of them with his fussy and overbearing and control freak way . jack pine for a girlfriend he can not leave and or who would not leave him and and of whom his two brother disapprove . meanwhile and he have casual sex with rita with no more real forethought than he apply to slug down narcotic cough syrup and pill of unknown provenance and just to make his surroundings more interesting and to take his mind off his ex girlfriend . but the brother most profound source of unhappiness be that their own family have fail to live up to their image of what a family should be . this longing for an idealized family and parent be a major theme in anderson movie . they resent their runaway mother and who do not show up for their father funeral and they squabble over who should have possession of their father belonging . it be a bereaved indian father who give peter the absolution he crave and not his brother or his mother . francis finally remove his bandage and let his younger brother see his wound and both emotional and physical . jack be the only one who seem largely unchanged be this because the actor be a co writer . it must be very hard to write for yourself . all this make it seem a serious movie and which it be not . there be two good hearty laugh to be find in it and many wry smile . the brother be exasperate and shallow and at time even petty and and yet you find yourself like them all the same . i find these character to be intrigue . peter seem the most outwardly normal and but he have the strange quirk . francis be oddly sexless and almost monastic . one suspect he may very well end up live much a his mother do . i keep wait for him to make some comment about his scarring and how it might affect his romantic life and but he never do . jack be highly sexed and yet seem uncomfortable in his body and hide behind his little porn star moustache . he yearn to be mysterious and exotic and or a romantic expatriate artiste and but when he attempt to act a such and it just come off awkward and force . owen wilson be an actor i have never have a whole lot of use for and but i must admit that he be very good in this movie . he bring a sweetness to a character who could have be simply annoy . adrien brody be fine a peter . his character have to display the most emotional range and and be also the most physical and with some episode of good slapstick . anderson clearly understood brody strength and make them work . he and wilson be effective in scene together and have the chemistry of real brother . i be less impressed with jason schwartzman . i have like him a lot well in other movie . i felt he be overshadow in this film whenever he have to go up against brody and wilson and despite be give the funny line . he do well in his scene with rita . wes anderson movie have be criticize for be too white and too rich ( his main character usually do not have money worry and max fischer aside ) and and for have a void in the center . i think set this movie in india with all it beauty and diversity and have some of the strong supporting character be indian help with the whiteness factor . but to criticize movie like this for have a void in the center kind of miss the point . his movie be about the voidthe one that exist between people who yearn for that sense of connection . and the best way to bridge it be to stop take yourself so damn seriously .