Conflict In The Royal Tenenbaums

In Wes Anderson's film, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) you will find it to be a distorted film about a father who left his three kids and mother as kids and returns twenty-two years later. During his absence of betrayal, it molded the children into adults filled with bitterness and pity against their father who tells them he has six weeks to live to gain their forgiveness. With Royal's sincerity of forgiveness slowly ends up affecting them who are dealing with their personal lives. I will unveil how the film uses the third person omniscient narrator, symbolism and the theme of holding unity in the family, family dysfunction, and the individual effort to mend errors.

The film’s point of view, third person omniscient, illuminated the theme of the importance of holding unity in the family. In third person omniscient, both the narrator and the audience know more than what the character's in the story do. For example, Margot’s twenty-two-year-old smoking addiction, her early marriage to a Jamaican and most importantly her depression. These are happenings in the story we knew about before the characters did. With attention to, when

He had no sympathy for his family’s feelings. Royal says, “I came here to see if I could win you back. Besides, I'm broke and got kicked out of my hotel and needed a place to stay” (Anderson). Since the point of view of the film was in the third person omniscient, the narrator reveals Royal started to have an emotional change towards his family. “These last six days have been the best six days of my life” (Anderson). Here the audience can see his push to the start of making things right with his family. Also, since the audience is aware of each character’s situation, we can look at the pieces of the broken family, and more importantly the importance of unity in