A classic of multi-line narrative

Dandre 2022-04-19 09:01:20

The 1999 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award, director Paul Thomas Anderson's most alternative work, the plot style is similar to Inaritu's "Babel" and "Love is a Bitch", the 2005 Oscar for the best picture "Crash", 1994 Golden Lion Award "Heavy Rain is Coming", this film is also a multi-line narrative, each story is independent but overlapping. The 188-minute film is long, multi-line narrative, and a large number of characters. It looks very difficult in the early stage, and there are many details. It is suitable for more brushing. Some plots are not easy to understand after watching it once. Speaking of the actors, the lineup is also good, including the talented Philip Hoffman, who died young, and Julian Moore, the Oscar and the three European Grand Slam winners. Of course, the best performer in this film is Tom. When it comes to the most important award in his career, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Tom, who has been starring in commercial blockbusters in recent years, is by no means only holding the thighs of sequels. His early literary films are also classics. It is not suitable to describe him with two flowers in style. The ending is also very shocking and unexpected. The director's talent has been brought to the extreme. As for the theme, it is also very obvious. The weirdness and coincidence of life are everywhere, and the scars are everywhere. Everyone has their own inner grief. Learn to accept The imperfect past and the past, instead of just blindly escaping like Tom, the scene where he finally held his dying father's hand and hugged his head and cried was his salvation, and the former prodigy also walked out of the bottleneck of life, The police also accidentally recovered the lost gun, the late-cancer host father and daughter also reached a settlement, and the father forgave his son who was seeking freedom. Life is moving forward beautifully, even though Ling has many disappointments.

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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.