Film Selection Transfer - The Master - "A Handed-Down Work Concerned"

This is undoubtedly an outstanding work of art. With its complete and textured form, typical and delicate characteristics of the times, and bold and creative forms of expression, it has achieved its superb artistic quality, and indicates that it must be able to withstand test of time. In the film, what is particularly striking and irresistible is its unique and strong contrast: behind the calm, plain and full of nostalgic film lens, there are hidden character relationships full of postmodern temperament, full of metaphors and symbols; RH The psychedelic and restless new jazz soundtrack contrasts the spiritual ruins of the long-gone postwar. This peculiar mix and match casts a strange mystery on the film. Then there's the religiously-laden "Trinity" mirror-like perfection of characters in the story - the absolute social bondage of Mary Sue, the centrist struggler of Lancaster, the pure wildness of Freddie - and the elusive relationship between them. Involving interaction... All of these are magically just right in line with the temperament of the theme of Scientology, strange and charming. This is the story of how the two sides of a war beast abandoned by society meet, how they support each other, how they complement and grow each other, and how they finally part ways on diametrically opposed paths, showing multiple sets of opposing themes. Therefore, like many masterpieces handed down from the past, to say that it expresses a story, it is better to say that it shows a proposition. This proposition is universal, complex and difficult to understand. It involves history, society, psychology, anthropology, etc. The film's jumping blank editing, subtle switching between reality and imagination, and loop-like plot development just imply the directionality of the theme and endow the meaning with interpretability, which further strengthens the vitality of the work. It can be said that Paul Thomas Anderson is like Michael Haneke of the United States. They all have their own unique and persistent artistic pursuits, are committed to the realization of their own ideas, and at the same time have created cultural treasures that human civilization is worthy of boasting about.

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