Dissolving

Abby 2022-03-18 09:01:04

Freddie in the movie is like a human yo-yo, mentally unstable, at the mercy of animalistic instincts and unwilling to live a straight life. Master, while priding himself as the superego human, finds connection with Freddie on the primal instinct level of human Existence. What is LIVING then? In reality, Philip Seymour Hoffman is such a natural born actor. Too sad he was lost to drug abuse. But acting in itself is atypical living - killing oneself (metaphorically) and completely dissolving into another life. Maybe the ability to dissolve oneself is the key to good acting. Then what is LIVING?

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Extended Reading
  • Ernestina 2021-11-29 08:01:21

    Not the kind of movie you think. Very special. This film is actually about a person, the other side of the bloody tycoon. It's no wonder that Yu and Phoenix are in sympathy, they are so alike.

  • Alice 2022-03-24 09:01:44

    Crazy but not letting go, Anderson, as always, uses beautiful and meaningful shots and seemingly sloppy but extremely rigorous structures to kill people. From beginning to end, it is a perfect symmetry that maps the ridiculous and the chaos; only this time he is too egoistic.

The Master quotes

  • Lancaster Dodd: Marriage, previous to The Cause, was *awful*. Awful. There's a cycle, like life. Birth, excitement, growth, decay. Death. Now... now. How about this? Here comes, a large dragon. Teeth! Blood dripping! Red eyes! What do I got? A lasso. And I whip it up, I wrap it around its neck, and I wrestle! Wrestle! Wrestle him to the ground. I snap up, I say "Sit, dragon!" Dragon sits. I say "Stay!", dragon stays. Now it's got a leash on. Take it for a walk. And that's what-where we're at with it now. It stays on command. Next we're gonna teach it to roll over and play dead.

  • Lancaster Dodd: What a day. We fought against the day and we won. We won.