The murder case that the police encountered at first left many mysteries behind. Housewife Marcie killed her husband and interrogators kept asking her son Worm and grandson Dixon whereabouts. Dixon is naturally that Rap kid. After the interrogation, a man suspected of Worm wakes up Dxion, who is watching the quiz show, but their story ends abruptly here.
After the police came out of Claudia's house, they encountered a suspicious man, who was Worm from the hood. After the police and Worm exchanged fire, Dixon took advantage of the chaos to steal the policeman's gun.
According to the PTA's script, Dixon and Worm originally planned to blackmail Stanley's father, but they were not successful, and finally gave up because of the frog rain. Marcie later confessed to the interrogators that she killed her husband because he beat his son and grandson. Father and son, family rifts, these are constant themes of PTA's work. According to the credits, casting and filming have been completed for this segment, but it may have been axed due to its length.
The cut scenes affected the completion of the whole film, and the transformation of several roles was somewhat inexplicable. The emotional line between Stanley and his father also lacked an opportunity to change, and only the sentence "Go to Bed" left people a little confused. Another example is when Donnie suddenly regretted stealing cash and returned the stolen items.
The film was inspired by Aimee Mann's "Wise Up". It's a song about letting go of the past and starting over, and that's what this film is about. In the film, at a key point where several protagonists are ready to let go of the past and confess to others, PTA chooses to let them cross time and space and sing this song together, which is touching.
Although I like the narration and editing of "Magnolia", the quality of the stories is uneven and not maintained at the same level. In terms of ranking, Tom's story is the best, the host's confession is second, his daughter and A police love story is third, a child's story fourth, Julianne Moore's fifth, and Donnie's story last. This led to the lack of a synergy in the climax of the final frog rain, and the theme was not well highlighted, unfortunately.
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