On the Wes Anderson tip: I feel his true skill is his ability to comment on family dynamics. I'm not a big Tenebaums fan, because although it is obvs about family, It seems to me mostly about the individual quirks of each member, and there were less moments that stood out to me because of the way the characters were affected by, or affected each other in their filial and family relations. As an example, I feel like Rushmore really subtly opens up as a movie because of the dynamic btw the protagonist and his dad, the dad has this kind of humdrum existence and yet he understands life better than his son at least emotionally, even though the kid has this yearning for sophistication and something larger. That's the kind of shit that gets me. Probably why I rank Darjeeling as thee most thought-provoking and fleshed out script, followed by Life Aquatic, or anyway those are the two that have stuck with me the most.