Wes Anderson's, The Darjeeling Limited, Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman

Warning: This film has snakes on a train, but contrary to rumors is not a sequel to Snakes on a Plane and I will ruin this film for you with indulgent interpretation.

The sporadic rhapsody that is Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, begins with a time warped moment initiating what seems to be plot. Bill Murry ensues on a white rabbit dash to meet his train, but falls short as Adrien Brody outruns him with a sprawling hop onboard. The moment holds cinematic significance, but takes some serious plot derailment to reveal its meaning. That train is the Darjeeling Limited, an imaginary line that crosses India and is host to the spiritual journey of three brothers. The brothers: a triumvirate of tragic-comic minds including Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman.

Trains are always dependable for plot progress. Yet, in true Anderson fashion the story in motion gets derailed by characters that are too playful for the constraints of plot. Anderson's trademark symmetry of tones; both of color and sound, mystify our conscious awareness of this shift. We willing tumble along a plot that has gone off course into the psyche of enigmatic characters. This is definitely not a flaw of the director, but one used as symbolism in the manipulation of plot by impulsive characters.

In the case of TheDarjeeling Limited this symbolism is the excessive baggage that three brothers carry on a train, one derailed on the track to spiritual sanctuary. Not to mention, after which, the symbolism of also trying to save three young Indian brothers drowning in a river. The "X" on their map of sanctuary is their M.I.A mother, a born again nun played by Anjelica Huston. In an emotional sense she is holding the missing closure they yearn for in their father's death; a catalyst of their family's splintering.