"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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Magnolia quotes

  • Young Pharmacy Kid: Strong, strong stuff here. What exactly you have wrong, you need all this stuff?

    Linda Partridge: Motherfucker...

    Young Pharmacy Kid: What are you talking about?

    Linda Partridge: Who the fuck are you, who the fuck do you think you are? I come in here, you don't know me, you don't know who I am, what my life is, you have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life?

    Old Pharmacist: Please, lady, why don't you calm down - ?

    Linda Partridge: Fuck you, too. Don't call me "lady". I come in here, I give these things to you, you check, you make your phone calls, look suspicious, ask questions. I'm sick. I have sickness all around me and you fucking ask me about my life? "What's wrong?" Have you seen death in your bed? In your house? Where's your fucking decency? And then I'm asked fucking questions. What's... wrong? You suck my dick. That's what's wrong. And you, you fucking call me "lady"? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on both of you.

  • Alan Kligman, Esq.: Linda, stop. Now you take a moment, you breathe, and one thing at a time.

    Linda Partridge: Shut the fuck up.

    Alan Kligman, Esq.: You know what would help you, Linda?

    Linda Partridge: Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.

    Alan Kligman, Esq.: You need to sober up.

    Linda Partridge: Now, you must *really* shut the fuck up now, please - shut the fuck up.

    Alan Kligman, Esq.: Linda.

    Linda Partridge: I have to go.

    Alan Kligman, Esq.: Let me call you a car, Linda.

    Linda Partridge: Shut the fuck up.