
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Moonrise Kingdom keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, authority, comingofage.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.