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Totenkindly
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It's a PT Anderson film, which means I usually have a weird kind of ambivalence -- like, I really like it while not being sure if I can sit through it again. 
I felt that way with The Master, and There Will Be Blood, and so on.. I think Magnolia is the only one I've watched repeatedly. But there is no question the guy is a genius, a distinctive director with his own voice, his films always feel powerful to me and are nothing like anything else I've seen.
(I think the only film of his I did not like much was, weirdly, Punch-Drunk Love. I guess it felt trivial on some level.)
Anyway, here Daniel Day Lewis is just (as always) tremendous in terms of acting, and the female lead playing against him was great -- they were both so stubborn headed (he's fastidious/fussy, she's more bull-headed, but man....) And the sister also sticks out to me as well, such a great character and controlled acting.
I think the only thing that threw me off with this film was the mushroom tangent that ended up becoming the main plot in a sense. I just didn't expect the film to go that way, although once it did, I saw why.... and of course it's a PT Anderson film, it's going to go in a way I don't expect, just as There Will Be Blood ended up in a private bowling alley (out of all things) and that damn milkshake now-meme.
As I said, the music was just one of the best things of the film for me. I need to grab a copy of that soundtrack.
I felt that way with The Master, and There Will Be Blood, and so on.. I think Magnolia is the only one I've watched repeatedly. But there is no question the guy is a genius, a distinctive director with his own voice, his films always feel powerful to me and are nothing like anything else I've seen.(I think the only film of his I did not like much was, weirdly, Punch-Drunk Love. I guess it felt trivial on some level.)
Anyway, here Daniel Day Lewis is just (as always) tremendous in terms of acting, and the female lead playing against him was great -- they were both so stubborn headed (he's fastidious/fussy, she's more bull-headed, but man....) And the sister also sticks out to me as well, such a great character and controlled acting.
I think the only thing that threw me off with this film was the mushroom tangent that ended up becoming the main plot in a sense.
I just didn't expect the film to go that way, although once it did, I saw why.... and of course it's a PT Anderson film, it's going to go in a way I don't expect, just as There Will Be Blood ended up in a private bowling alley (out of all things) and that damn milkshake now-meme.As I said, the music was just one of the best things of the film for me. I need to grab a copy of that soundtrack.
