morbid, complicated, cold, jokes, acrimonious, elegant, Obscene, explicit, desolate, ugly, violent, embarrassing, ambiguous, deeply doubtful, inwardly, sad, painful, nihility, concise, profound, high Visual, extremely mature, fascinating, open, offensive, and welcoming audience participation...
Yes, "Master" contains all the above attributes, and there are only a few.
To sum up, for most people, "The Master" is not a pleasant movie, especially for Americans. It is a movie that strongly questioned the disintegration of the American dream and American spirit and runs counter to mainstream values. . It is not uncommon for it to do nothing on important Oscar nominations, although compared to it, "Escape from Tehran" is like a mediocre and superficial student work that strives to be correct.
As far as the story is concerned, "The Master" tells the postwar life of a veteran of World War II Freddy for about five years. Not only did he not integrate into the society, he successfully married the long-awaited sweetheart in the rear, and lived a happy and happy little life, but it was a mess. , Embarrassed, alcoholism, unprovoked mania and violence made him step by step away from the bright and normal world. Even the lowest life could not accommodate him. It stands to reason that this kind of person should have destroyed himself, but he unexpectedly met " "Master", a writer, a founder of "Past and Present Psychotherapy", a person who can help you eliminate your fears, and most importantly, "Master" likes the spirits he mixes and decides to take him in, and then take him He walked the rivers and lakes with a group of believers.
Wine is the key word throughout "Master". For Freddie, wine is medicine, the only thing that can be depended on forever and is effective, but just as we don’t know why he should extinct himself from the people, we don’t know why he drinks too much, until the "master" conducts deep "psychological" for him. "Treatment", in the conversations, we found countless thrilling clues: father died of alcoholism, incest with relatives, mother surviving in a mental hospital... "The Master" is an out-and-out puzzle-solving process that provides It is rich in clues, except that it does not provide answers. The audience needs to interpret the characters' psychological motives by themselves, and then establish the psychological portrait of each character: Is the "master" a cold and selfish liar? Are he and Freddie pitying each other? Did his self-confidence collapse after publishing the second book? Why did Freddie speak badly to the "Master" in prison, and the "Master" continues to take him in? Why did the newly married daughter of "Master" seduce Freddie? At the end of the film, "Master" summoned Freddy to England, why did he suddenly repent and break with him? Is the seemingly gentle lady "Master" the real ultimate BOSS? Why should she insist on persuading Freddie to stop drinking? And by what means have you firmly controlled your husband?
Just as the director Paul Thomas Anderson has emphasized in many previous works, when we solve the mystery of the turbulent "Master", we can still draw the consistent conclusion that "others are hell" and "relatives are hell in hell". In "Master", everyone seems to be in a parasitic, exploiting, and controlling relationship with others. At the same time, they tortured, cursed, deceived, and abused each other. Even if we reasoned out their motives, we still find it difficult to understand and accept: Is this really such a cruel world? Full of coldness, ignorance, cunning, hypocrisy, vulnerability and confusion?
Among all the puzzles, Anderson seems to have deliberately avoided one of the most important and essential clues: Is Freddy's so sickness and alcoholism inherited or caused by war trauma? If it is the latter, what kind of irreparable damage did he suffer in the war? Why would he abandon the most beloved girl and choose self-destruction and exile? Of course, Anderson has actually revealed this truth in just a few minutes of the opening and the next few words, but he must leave a huge and dark imagination space for the audience to experience by themselves why a war hero has become a world. The saddest orphan in the world can only find comfort that does not exist in the sand and poisoned wine.
In addition to the concise and highly impactful lines, allowing the audience to push out a huge and hideous psychological group image by themselves, the most remarkable artistic achievement of "Master" is to create a 3D movie comparable to a 3D movie through the rich and three-dimensional high-depth picture. Refreshing and realistic visual effects, while using Kubrick's concise technique, using the simplest lens language and outstanding soundtrack to set off the plot space, it tells a tragic story that is radiant on the outside and extremely dark on the inside.
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