"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
  • Georgianna 2021-10-20 19:02:27

    Except for the two points of dazzling skills and too cruel soundtrack, I like everything about the rest of this film; the early PTA is like a long-mirror maniac. From time to time, I throw out two of them as if to say "come soon." See how fucking I am."

  • Alexys 2021-10-20 19:02:26

    Multi-line stories are integrated into one movie, the plot is really exciting, but the rhythm is a bit slow

Magnolia quotes

  • Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick and I'm in love.

    Thurston Howell: You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: That's right. That's the first time you've been right. I confuse the two and I don't care.

  • Jim Kurring: Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail.