Editor’s note: This article includes spoilers.
The characters in Asteroid City lose their faith in God. That’s not a surprising outcome for a movie made in a rapidly secularizing era. What’s unexpected is that the film also doubts an uncompromising, materialistic atheism.
Like many of his previous films, Wes Anderson’s latest is a narrative and visual nesting doll, a story within a story within a story.
Alicia Rolsma is a social studies teacher at Lexington Christian Academy in Massachusetts.
