“The boy was murdered, I think, by the people who were meant to love him.”
Wes Anderson is talking about a surreal moment that occurs early in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, in which the protagonist, the ruthless international tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), experiences a vision of the afterlife. Zsa-Zsa has just had a close call with death, and now he finds himself attending a heavenly black-and-white funeral for a young boy whose body lies in a coffin. Is that someone Zsa-Zsa knows? Is it himself? Is this a dream? Zsa-Zsa sees his long-dead grandmother sitting next to him. “Why are we here?” he asks her. She doesn’t recognize him. Then, the boy in the coffin wakes up — and so does Zsa-Zsa.
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