1.   Although the movie takes place in Mexico, all the Mexicans speak English.

2.   And the movie takes extra care to convey the lushness of nature.

3.   Anderson was a child during the years when the movie takes place.

4.   As the boys play around the country, the movie takes swipes at various cities.

5.   As Lenny and the movie propel themselves backward in nonlinear fashion, the movie takes on a lurid, jagged, ambiguous quality that becomes its own payoff.

6.   Because the movie takes place during a French summer, many of the characters wear white clothes.

7.   Big movies typically take closer to six months to reach stores.

8.   ------ But the movie also takes on some more serious clashes of Western society within Egypt.

9.   After that, the movie really takes off and, at the same time, veers into some gory violence.

10.   But because the movie took so long to shoot, the wheat had turned brown by the end of June and was harvested by mid-July.