This movie so Wes Anderson. It has a lot of the same feel as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. There’s even the cameo appearances of Bill Murray at the beginning and end. Very similar color tones – bright, contrasting with the very understated emotional tones, long takes with lots of lateral camera movement through objects. The “extras” on the DVD shows how they filmed it on an actual train – although highly modified to allow camera and crews to have the angles for shooting. I did feel a bit uncomfortable at the portrayal of Indians (in India, that is) as “exotic landscape”. But the ending scene when they finally throw their father’s luggage away and head off into their future is so apt.