The Master (2012)

[Phillip Greenlief]

I most care about seeing how it evokes the early L.A. postwar time.

PG:
you might be disappointed. this film doesn't succeed in capturing the feel of los angeles (my birthplace) the way MAGNOLIA and other anderson films have done. and locations skip around a bit. it's not set there exclusively.

  My coming of age personal contact with cults--Dianetics and Rosicrucianism--was limited (went to a few pool parties) and neither of these two was any match for what later was to come down the pike.  It was just that a new future had arrived. I knew some pretty screwed up vets but nothing to approach Joaquin Phoenix's character.

P

PG:
my father talked a lot about shell shock victims after ww2, i think, since this was as popular war as any, it was largely kept hidden.

we don't know a lot about fred, (phoenix's character), other than his mother ended up in a "looney bin". so it is at least suggested that the damage was in motion before the war. 




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On Sep 21, 2012, at 8:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

The Master has gleaned such good/bad reviews.  I think I like the bad ones.  I'll see it real soon.

On Friday, September 21, 2012, Dave Monroe wrote:
... @ least a couple of what I'm taking as obvious Against the Day
references, @ very least, not only to the "pigeon post" during the
siege of Paris (AtD Ch. 1, p. 19) ...

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_19

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Garçons_de_%2771

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114462

... + see as well, e.g., ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post#Pigeon_post_of_Paris

http://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pigeon/pigeon.html

http://www.amazon.com/Airlift-Balloon-Pigeon-Siege-Paris/dp/B0000CMMIP

http://parispigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/siege-of-paris-pigeon-post-and-balloon-mail/

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct10/al-pigeonpost.html

... but the pointed use of the phrase "against the day" itself ("We
fought against the day and won") ...

The Master (2012)

http://www.themasterfilm.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)


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