I recently had to fly to the West Coast and back, and a cross all the flights I watched the movie like four times, the first one being the first time I'd seen it.

It's brilliant. I still think about it constantly. I think about the musical cue that starts when everyone steps up to give their monologue. I still think about the fact that despite it being a fiction within a fiction the most real layer of it all is asteroid City itself, so bold with color, so vibrant, so detailed. I think about how somehow no one gets hurt with the cops and robbers shooting at each other. I think about the specific way that the layer of the people putting on the play speaks deeply to my love of New York City and my younger sister's love and involvement in theater and how it bled so deeply into me by association.

I think about the way that the alien drops the meteorite.

I think about how good that roadrunner puppet is. Constantly.

Thanks for writing it! I think this’ll be the push I need to finally get me to go watch it— I’ve been on the fence for years

I've preferred the French dispatch over asteroid city after I saw both in quick sucession, thinking the former as being more emotionally accessible, but this post gave me a new perspective, I might go watch asteroid city again now. Thanks for the post!