"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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Extended Reading
  • 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

  • Eve 2022-04-23 07:01:18

    Lengthy and trivial. family theme. Several stories are interspersed, and several family relationships are tangled. "Daddy, be nice to me," the pee-peering genius begged Dad. "I thought he would love me if I had braces. I really have love to give, but I just don't know who to give to." A former gifted child, a comrade whose parents took away the bonus. These two characters are the ones I think have reason to be nervous or angry, the other characters, the story is quite contrived.

Magnolia quotes

  • Jim Kurring: A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour... job's over. Something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don't see... is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a judgment call... that's a judgment on them, but that is not what I do. And that's not what should be done. I have to take everything... and play it as it lays. Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that is a very tricky thing on my part... making that call. I mean, the law is the law. And heck if I'm gonna break it. You can forgive someone. Well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.

  • Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You look like you have money in your pocket.

    Thurston Howell: Maybe I'm just happy to see my friend Brad there.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Just throw some money around. Money, money, money.

    Thurston Howell: This sounds threatening.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Do you have love in your heart?

    Thurston Howell: I have love all over. I even have love for you, friend.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Is it real love? The kind of love that makes you feel... that intangible joy in the pit of your stomach... like a bucket of acid and nerves running around... making you hurt and happy and all over... You're head over heels?

    Thurston Howell: You lost me with the last couple of cocktail words spoken my boy... but I believe it's that sort of love. Sounds nice to me.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I have love.

    Thurston Howell: A very chatty kind, indeed you do.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: No, I mean I'm telling you - I have love.

    Thurston Howell: Yes, and I'm listening avidly, fella.

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: My name is Donnie Smith, and I have lots of love to give.