The Master (2012)

[Markekohut]

My starting point is different. Anderson wants a societally " free" man, stressed. 


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On Sep 23, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ...