"Magnolia" with mystery

Benjamin 2021-10-20 17:32:16

I love another work by director Paul Thomas Anderson, "There will be blood" ("There will be blood"), but don't like this one very much, even though it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

This story is a mystery, the whole is a chaos, and it is a chaos deliberately created by the screenwriter (and the director). It is magical that it progresses through a super slow plot (the blood-vomiting lengthy), quietly involving the audience in this magnolia-like net (chaos), so that the audience will be deceived after watching it. Feeling fooled.

The theme that I want to express or the deep meaning that it contains also makes people feel painless and repeat the old tune.

The fancy structure of the film earned the screenwriter and director Paul Thomas Anderson an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.

Even the provocative speech performance that Tomboy was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and was talked about by many people did not impress me too much because of the thinness of the character.

Rating: 7 out of 10

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Extended Reading
  • Deontae 2022-03-23 09:01:18

    "Magnolia" is essentially a miracle drama, first of all crimes and confession, then the severity of life, accident, intolerability, etc., and after the terrible rain of frogs at the end, this is really Is there a world without God? We are "forced" to choose between Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. Editing and Soundbridge do not imply a kind of synchronicity, but look for similarities between characters. The real colorful passage is that when all the characters are facing a negative event that is unbearable for them, the squeeze space suddenly de-terminates, but the montage takes the film to another stagnant and squeeze space, different The event and the state of deja vu. However, the miniaturization of the individual is not the victory of the grand narrative. While the diversity of the world is established, it is accompanied by the return of suffering and introversion. Just like "Leap Of Faith", the audience first sees the multi-line narrative, which is sensual and sensual. The sublime TV world, then, they will find that all the beginning and ending have been juxtaposed, and we have no choice.

  • Theodore 2021-10-20 19:02:26

    In the middle, I drank various liquids, tea, rum, home-brewed medicinal liquor, the second child, and joy.

Magnolia quotes

  • Stanley Spector: [watching it rain frogs outside the library window] This happens. This is something that happens.

  • Jimmy Gator: The book says, "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."