Chevalier

Today in class we watched 'Hotel Chevalier' (dir. Wes Anderson), a companion short film to 'The Darjeeling Limited'. This piece stars Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as an on-again-off-again couple who meet again in the eponymous hotel.

Being given the theme of 'dislocation', it's important to see how this piece relates to the theme and vice versa. Gathering on what you see in the film, it is clear to see that Schwartzman's character is dislocated from a 'normal' life. He is a wealthy man who has been living in an extremely luxurious and expensive hotel room, even going as far as getting his hair cut by a random barber in the hotel lobby. He has detached and dislocated himself from all contact with the outside world, and even initially treats his girlfriend as an intruder over the phone.
The room itself seems to become a character in itself, bathed in warm yellows and reds, and envelopes the characters into it's own separate, cut-off world with it's strange paintings and collected nick-nacks. The song playing sings of wanting to get into someones head, which can relate to the two characters trying to understand the other, faced with ambiguity at every turn.