Kara and I caught Wes Anderson’s new film The Darjeeling Limited the other night at Princeton’s little art-house theater, the Princeton Garden. It is the story of three estranged brothers who meet in India at the request of the oldest brother. They board the Darjeeling train looking for a spiritual journey. Like all of Anderson’s films, Darjeeling is funny… but not that kind of funny. It’s funny in the way that looking back on life can be funny, a mixture of tears and laughter. The three brothers are very broken people, untrusting, dishonest, depressed, bandaged… people. They can’t go a minute into their spiritual journey without being interrupted by each other. As adults they continue to live out brotherly tensions. In the midst of their journey in the heart of India they face some particularly hard times, but do so as brothers and friends. In the end we realize it is particularly good news that brothers from this family stuck together.