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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  • Malvina 2022-04-23 07:01:55

    It's worth watching again...the movie that I'm making up for PTA recently...

  • Sincere 2021-11-29 08:01:21

    Rewatch on August 21, 2021; you have to enter the narrow gate. Because the door that leads to perdition is wide, the road is big, and many people go in; the door that leads to eternal life is narrow, the road is small, and there are few people who find it; you can’t say that I have nothing, You can't say that I am empty-handed. The shadow of war trauma was pushed away layer by layer. He gradually escaped into the self-questioning circle of what a human being, falling from one lie to another, suffering like heavy wet clothes tightly bound, like a desperate sigh of drowning; No one can save you at all. Everyone is on the way to life like a lonely ghost. Joaquin's performance can be called a three-pointer.

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.