Professional evaluation of knight hotel

Knight Hotel is one of the most popular short films in 2007, which has won a lot of praise. Many review articles think that the film is not even inferior to crossing Darjeeling. Gary Susman of Entertainment Weekly described this as "an exquisite short story, and we don't know much about these two characters". He also pointed out that "Knight Hotel still seems to be the crystallization of Anderson's usual jewelry box and doll's house model, and its form and length are properly matched". Armand White commented in the New York Press that this short film contains a kind of "bitterness of lost girls", which makes this work "touching and truly modern". Natalie Portman's nude scenes and scarred body attracted some people's attention. Portman expressed disappointment. He said, "It really makes me depressed to see that half of every comment is about nude scenes." . This incident also made her reconsider her wisdom in choosing acting, and then vowed never to play nude scenes in movies again.

Richard Corliss, a film critic of Time Magazine, praised Portman's performance in this "seductive episode" as a "newly blooming comedy actress" and hoped that she would have more roles in Crossing Darjeeling. He also felt that feature films lacked "sensibility and wisdom in short films". Stephanie ZaCarrec of Salon.com. Com has a similar view, saying that "compared with the story told from beginning to end in Crossing Darjeeling, the unknown story in Knight Hotel is ten times more attractive and richer". In her opinion, this short film is "almost perfect". Danny Leigh, a columnist of The Guardian, compared the indifference of film critics and bloggers to the "real passion" shown in the "perfectly customized narrative" of Knight Hotel. He believes that the limitation of short film format allows Anderson to perform well. His trademark cold humor, unique artistic direction design and choice of music have exhausted the patience of the audience to watch a feature film. The New York Times's A·O· Scott said that "Knight Hotel" is like a "little gem" compared with a long film like a "thick suitcase". In his article, he called it a work worth exploring, not only because it contains some stories of the Whitman brothers, but also because the short film itself is both nerve-racking and intriguing to Mr. Anderson.