The Master (2012)

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:

> 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.

... there's not a lot of context, or even rationale, throughout.  I'll
eventually see it again, if only to catch what I might have missed
(restroom, distractions, anxiety, brief blackout [which is why I've
been unemployed for 2 1/2 years now, by the way]), but I do have the
screenplay, + it's not necessarily any help, so ... the ultimate
question (or, @ ay rate, the most interesting one, so far as I'm
concerned) is, what provoked any of this in the 1st place?  + to what
effect (on the audience, on cinema, on ...)?  I know someone not
entirely dissimilar to the Joaquin Phoenix character, maybe even
someone like the PSH one, all I could think is, this is how people
fall into these things, this is how they act when they do, + I can't
help but think that, insofar as anything is in the movie (not so sure,
it's not all to difficult to imply significance, @least, as We all
Know) is that (SPOILER ALERT?) "mortal enemies" line towards the end
might provide a key of some sort ...