"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
  • Ryleigh 2022-03-22 09:01:15

    There are too many clues to the characters and the story, but there is no chemical reaction in the connection between them, and it is long and protracted. I always feel that there may be a surprise at the end. As a result, there is an embarrassing rain of frogs. I really can't like such a movie.

  • Bud 2022-04-23 07:01:18

    It took more than three hours to interpret the sorrowful hearts of more than a dozen characters, lay down countless clues and mix them into the eye-popping structure, and finally ended with an outrageous weather... The purpose is only to tell.. LIFE & LOVE

Magnolia quotes

  • Rose Gator: Say it, Jimmy.

    Jimmy Gator: I think she thinks... that I may have... molested her. She thinks terrible things that somehow got into her head... that I may have done. She said that to me last time, when it was... ten years ago, she walked out the door. "You touched me wrong. I know that." Some crazy thought in her head.

    Rose Gator: Did you ever touch her?

    Jimmy Gator: I don't know.

    Rose Gator: [covers her mouth in disgust] ... Jimmy!...

    Jimmy Gator: I don't know. I really don't.

    Rose Gator: But you can't say!

    Jimmy Gator: I don't know what I've done.

    Rose Gator: [angering] Yes, you do. You do! But you won't say!

    Jimmy Gator: I don't know. What? Please? Please.

    Rose Gator: You deserve to die alone for what you've done!

    Jimmy Gator: I don't know what I've done!

    Rose Gator: [beginning to cry] Yes, you do!

    Jimmy Gator: Rose, if I said that I knew, would you stay?

    Rose Gator: No!

    Jimmy Gator: But I don't know what I've done.

    Rose Gator: You should know better!

  • Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Have you ever been struck by lightning? It hurts.