I think it's easy to criticize the later Anderson movies for being very stylized, often repetitively so, but to me (and I am in general a big Wes fan) Asteroid City was impressively weird, creatively constructed, and if it tried too hard in the process, well, that's an acceptable price for breaking the mold.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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