noble soul

Hazle 2022-04-20 09:01:12

The film is a classic multi-linear narrative and a classic interlaced plot of fate. A group of seemingly unrelated characters are closely connected by fate. The storyline is huge, the plot is very tense, and the sound effects editing are also perfect, making the film look good. The climax is continuous, and the performances of the actors also amaze me, especially Tom Cruise; the film uses a very grotesque style to tell many stories that seem to be true but do not seem to be true, with a lot of chance and Dramatic, sometimes jumping out of the third perspective to interact with the audience, the film is actually a combination of bird and crash - using a multi-linear narrative to tell multiple absurd stories, highlighting the theme of confession and forgiveness.

"The flower language of magnolia is the noble soul", magnolia symbolizes nobility, whiteness and spotlessness, and the protagonists in the film are just people who have done wrong and have flaws. From this perspective, the film is satirizing human nature Dirty, but in fact, the protagonists in the film are struggling with their own past and finally completed their self-redemption. It can be seen that the director is conveying a theme: confession and forgiveness - no matter what our past is, We should all face up to our mistakes and face our true side bravely. No matter where we reach our destiny, from this moment onwards, we should re-understand ourselves and correct our mistakes, and we will have a noble soul.

I love the forgiveness at the end of the film - "I'm not going to let you go, I'm not going to let you say those things, how stupid you turned out to be, etc... I'm not going to put up with you doing that, do you think stay with me, stay with me"

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Extended Reading
  • Arne 2021-10-20 19:02:26

    I didn't expect the ending to be like this, but it was reasonable. 3 hours does not feel long at all. The PTA in 1999 has such a mindset, and the dialogue between man and God in "The Blood Is Coming" is really not accidental. When everyone’s desperation is brewing to the highest point with the background music, perhaps only sudden spectacles can calm all the unhappiness that has occurred in the world.

  • Cassandra 2021-10-20 19:02:26

    More than forty minutes later, I saw a long shot similar to the special cow in the BSG MINI.

Magnolia quotes

  • [singing along to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up"]

    Claudia Wilson Gator: It's not / What you thought / When you first began it / You got / What you want / Now you can hardly stand it though / By now you know / It's not going to stop

    Jim Kurring: It's not going to stop / It's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up

    Jimmy Gator: You're sure / There's a cure / And you have finally found it

    Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You think / One drink / Will shrink you 'til you're underground / And living down / But it's not going to stop

    Phil Parma: It's not going to stop

    Earl Partridge: It's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up

    Linda Partridge: Prepare a list for what you need / Before you sign away the deed / 'Cause it's not going to stop

    Frank T.J. Mackey: It's not going to stop / It's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up / No, it's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up / No, it's not going to stop

    Stanley Spector: So just... give up

  • Narrator: And there is the account of the hanging of three men, and a scuba diver, and a suicide. There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and who only knows? And we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it." Someone's so-and-so met someone else's so-and-so and so on. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that strange things happen all the time. And so it goes, and so it goes. And the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."