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Asteroid City (2023)
The definition of fey
I wanted to like this movie, the meta framework of the play framing the main story, the arch 50s cowboy/police chase/sci fi/etc etc art design and character look, but it was more exhausting than entertaining. I only hope that the actors enjoyed the process more than I did experiencing the movie, otherwise it's a just a time waste for a dozen fantastic actors. Anderson started out writing realistic stories and characters, now it's all just self-referential constructions with the life sucked out of them so Anderson can focus instead on set design, symmetry, typefaces, color saturation, stilted mannerisms...
Narco-saints (2022)
vaguely amusing, completely fictional story
For a show that keeps getting called "based on a real story" there's very little that has anything to do with the actual story. The actual "drug lord" was a guy who smuggled 50 kilos to Europe using couriers, was convinced to fly to San Paulo and was arrested when he landed. All of the action in the show is complete fiction, there was no large scale coke farm, the drug guy worked with ship parts, not some preacher with a following, etc. I'd personally be more interested in hearing the real story over this obviously fake endless gun battles and conflicts. The actual undercover guy was there for three years, which must have been a very different experience. 95% fiction, 5% fact.