SUBMARINE's deadpan style, wonderfully bizarre characters, and meticulously arranged shots call to mind the style of Wes Anderson, specifically in RUSHMORE, another cleverly understated, tenderly hilarious comedy centering on a neurotic, stone-faced teen. In this case, Craig Roberts plays Oliver Tate, a confused fifteen year-old living in the British burbs who's dually obsessed with classmate Jordana (Yasmin Paige) and his parents' shaky marriage, a veritable Max Fischer minus the confidence.
Like most teenagers, the precocious Oliver over-analyzes his world to the point of distraction. He invents his own sense of reality, imagining his death and an outpouring of grief a local news reporter breathlessly describes as "incredible… unprecedented" and entailing "scenes of quiet devotion." Girls who never acknowledged him lapse into hysterics in front of a quickly growing, candle-lit shrine, all narrated in a hilariously melodramatic tone that pervades the film to come. Resembling a little man in his upturned coat collar, coiffed hair, tie and briefcase, he's the weirdo people react to as well as the proverbial straight man.
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