Bottle Rocket 4K 1996 Ultra HD 2160p

Three young friends from Texas—Deagan, Anthony, and Bob—couldn't decide what to do with their lives for a long time. Finally, they made a fateful choice and embarked on a path of crime. They thought that the life of a thief was full of romance. But it turned out that not everyone is destined for success in this field. After their first job—robbing a bookstore—the friends went on the run...

User Review

In this film, shot at the dawn of his career, Wes Anderson placed one of the most absurd gangs in the history of cinema in a familiar criminal setting. The creation of the organized crime group, for example, begins with a scene of one of the film's characters escaping (actually, just leaving) a mental hospital and robbing his own house.

The plot then develops in a purely traditional manner: buying weapons from a colorful redneck, robbing a supermarket (albeit a bookstore, but still!), escaping from the police, joining a serious gang, an even more dangerous job, failure, and arrest.

The film also features all the mandatory locations for the genre: a highway, a roadside motel with a swimming pool and Latin American maids, expensively furnished living rooms for mafia parties, a poorly guarded warehouse, and a typical American prison. It's not hard to guess that the main characters are mainly engaged in making far-reaching criminal plans, having sex with the prettiest of the maids, and visiting Mexican bars.

“What's the point?” a movie lover might ask. The point is that all the twists and turns of the plot happen because the main characters are very idiotic. Each of the three gang members is good in his own way. But by American standards, they are all complete losers who perceive what is happening around them as an exciting game. A maid from Paraguay very accurately compared them to “paper (trash) flying down the street.”

Wes Anderson's film has apparently become a kind of classic for contemporary non-mainstream American cinema, whose central theme is the fate of all kinds of losers. In this case, the characters evoke sympathy rather than pity or rejection. Firstly, they do not harm anyone (except themselves), and some even make others happier. Compare them to the cold-hearted teenagers from the film Elephant, who open hunting season in their own school building. Secondly, the humor in the film is by no means sad. It must be admitted that the creators (including the producers of The Simpsons animated series) did a great job. The scenes and dialogues are, of course, not as brutal as in Kevin Smith's films, but they still make you smile throughout the film.

What did the director want to say with all this? American cinema seems to have absorbed the moral of the film like a sponge. For a large number of people in the United States itself, as for the majority of the world's population, the American dream with a clear life plan and material well-being in the end remains an absolutely unattainable and, perhaps, unnecessary myth. And because of this, the deeply unhappy outcasts of American society are in a constant search for a rich and interesting life, which sometimes leads them to prison or a mental institution.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (95.6 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by co-writer & director Wes Anderson and co-writer & actor Owen Wilson)

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