The Menswear in “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” (2004)

This is a blog post that accompanies the most recent bonus pod! You can listen to the first 15 minutes of the bonus pod below, but you’ll have to subscribe on Patreon to get the RSS feed of the full episode (as well as access to our Discord). I vaguely remember the first time I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. As you might have surmised, this was a very angsty period in my life, likely around the middle or end of 2014, which was right around when I learned I was finishing my undergrad earlier than expected (flex, I know) — and had only just realized that I wasn’t into my major (accounting). It was basically a quarter-life crisis, which, like my commencement, was just earlier than expected. Spurred on by The Grand Budapest (my first WA, which I saw at the beginning of that year), I wanted a bit of Whimsy and perhaps a little cry. And so I embarked on a little out-of-order Wes Anderson marathon, finally watching The Royal Tenenbaums (my fav), Fantastic Mr. Fox (rewatched…