"Magnolia" movie review

Deven 2022-03-23 09:01:18

"Magnolia" is
a three-hour film with a quick and nonsensical introduction to several historical coincidences. The next 2 hours basically described the stories of 2 related but unrelated people in one day.
Story 1: Jimmy Gait has hosted the ace TV show "Children's World" for 33 years, and the show's children's guest (Stanley Spike) has three days to break a 30-year-old prodigy (Donnie Smith) a previous record. Knowing that he was just a prop to entertain the public, Spike suddenly stopped answering questions on the final episode. The situation of the once-popular Downey is even more worrying. He works in an electrical store, and his poor work ability makes his boss want to fire him.
Presenter Jimmy was diagnosed with cancer at this time and had less than two months to live. Jimmy's just over 20-year-old daughter, Gordia, is obsessed with a neighbor man, which disrupts the harmony of family life. Mother Rose is not worried about her daughter and her husband. The lonely police officer Colin came to Jimmy's house because of a noise disturbance. When he saw Claudie for the first time, Colin fell into an extremely painful unrequited love. Claudy has a visceral hatred for his father, and his daughter becomes Jimmy's biggest ailment. On this day, Jimmy was going to tell his daughter the news that he was going to die soon, but the daughter couldn't accept it, and finally he was relieved when he saw his father's fall on TV.
The second story: In another family, also located in a mountain villa in Southern California, the male owner, Sir Patrick, is lying in a hospital bed, and he also knows that his time is short. In front of the old man's hospital bed stood his young wife, Linda, and the nursing doctor, Phil Burma, who were in different moods. Linda's heart was full of remorse. She had married the old sergeant for his money. When the old man was dying, she realized that she had fallen in love with him. Burma is tasked with bringing his beloved son Frank McKee, who has been away from home for many years, to the sickbed of the elderly. A father-son dispute made Mickey never set foot in the house again. Seeking his son's forgiveness became the old man's last wish. Mikey has become a famous TV host, his outfit gives a decadent feeling, his stereotype of his stepmother makes him start to hate all women in the world, when he learns his father is about to die, he rushes home to meet him at the last minute. A father.
Summary: 1. There are always some things that make us brooding and unforgettable. 2. There are always some memories that we regret. The frog rain at the end of the story drowns out all human sins and makes everything return to reason.

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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.