Moonrise Kingdom is a film made in 2012 that follows the story of twelve year-olds Suzy and Sam who have established a love connection early in their years. This love persuades them into leaving behind their drastically different lives. Suzy abandons her moderately large family that lives next to the ocean in a large house, while Sam breaks apart from his adoptive family at Camp Ivanhoe in order to run away from their estranged lives to be with each other. The two kindled their love with letters sent back and forth to each other, ultimately in which devising a plan to run away with each other and start a life with one another at the ages of twelve. Set in 1965, this movie captures the true meaning of young love and foolishness while at the same time making the viewer realize how powerful innocence can be. The children are caught up in a feeling that is seemingly forced at the beginning of the movie. The emotions seeping off of the children and onto the movie screen are ones of which have been screwed into their brains from people in their lives, such as Suzy’s parents. Their idea of what love should be is based off of their past experiences from approaching their teenage years. Sam’s past with being an orphan makes love rare to him. The film captures the true rawness of how Sam thinks. He meets a girl that could be interested in him, and imidiatly snatches that feeling up and makes it his own powerful force that he calls love. While Suzy is arguably trying to attain the opposite that Sam is. Her family is strong and connected, and her being a pre-teen girl does nothing but provoke the negative emotions she feels towards this family bond. Wanting independence, and rebellion in her life, she agrees to run away with Sam, in order for them to achieve their personal desires. Sam craves connection, and security, which ultimately brings these opposite personalities together. The movie has an eerie vibe to it, one in which I took as being a little creepy and dull. However after analyzing the deeper meaning behind the film and plot choices I realized how deliberate the choices must have been. The bland and somewhat boring ways that the cinematographer used the camera captures the innocence and inexperience of the story line. Even though the movie was produced and made in 2012, the idea of the film is to capture how it would have been made in the year it was set, 1965. The wardrobe was very true to the era, with Suzy wearing a proper dress and stockings throughout the film while Sam was wearing his Khaki scouts uniform. The movie fondles with the pureness of children and how their thoughts can provoke intense actions. The cinematic choices in the film to stay true to the theme and decade it was set was a truly important choice. The somewhat bland camera angles and lack of variety in the shots made the film more beautiful in ways that can only be felt when you take every choice that the set of the film made into consideration. I would recommend this film to whoever has an open mind and the patience to sit through a story that at times could be viewed as boring. Though I thought the film was visually stunning with its simplicity and care.