Moonrise Kingdom - young love in strange places

Almost at the end, it became clear that Moonrise Kingdom was the descriptive name of a time-limited tidal inlet, where Sam and Suzy really set up their alternative camp-house and recognised each other. This was also the site for their clichaic falling in love scene. It seems as if I am attracted to quirky films at the moment. Although I have not seen other movies by Wes Anderson, I should have expected it. This story was set in 1960's conservative family America, on an island off the coast of New England. I liked the way the movie began by panning through each room of a family house, some empty, some with adults and children occupied in normal activities... We realised early on that, while this might have been a normal family, fairly unusual communication and relationships were the norm. On the other side of the island was a military style scout camp, from which orhpaned Sam had run away. It was kind of fun to realise that Suzy and Sam would meet up in the middle of a large wheat field to enact their planned escape, and that Sam had learned a lot as a scout! Their social alienation as children united them as they recognised and valued this in each other. But then, the adult issues overtook and reduced this film; an unhappy marriage, an affair between 2 disturbed adults, the usual immature ego competitions between adult scout leaders vying for control and a rare and terrible thunderstorm... So the usual formulas of cat and mouse took over and eclipsed the humanity of the scouts trying to protect Sam being taken away again and prescribed ECT by 'Social Services'. Overall, an entertaining film, celebrating eccentricities in a visually spectacular style.