They are parallel and complex stories about a mix of stories of love, forgiveness, remorse and so on. This story begins with men who are about to die: both of them warn of a growing child, both of whom want to communicate, and no child wants any other relationship. However, Earl's son, Bartridge, is a gifted kinza and Jimmy Gator's daughter is cokehead and waif. A moderate and caring nurse mediated for Earl, up the son; a crooked and Muslim prayer meets the daughter. It all seems to be surprising and to keep thinking about everything that's going on.
A decade after its release, P.T. Anderson's emotionally epic Magnolia gets the glorious Blu-ray treatment it deserves. This Altman-esque mosaic follows several disparate L.A. citizens on one rainy day, as they navigate through mistakes and torrenti
You could spend three hours snickering at Anderson's 'What the World Needs Now Is Aimee Mann' metaphysic. But his vision cuts deeper than a lot of folky bathos.
Antagony & Ecstasy
April 18, 2011
Short Cuts is clearly the starting point, but not the ending point for a movie that is probably the most overstuffed with ideas of anything in Paul Thomas Anderson's career.
You don't have to like everything [Anderson] does, but if you enjoy seeing the walls rattled and the roof raised in the Hollywood citadel, you've got to love it.
ColeSmithey.com
April 13, 2009
Just as something so reliably surprising as the weather can modify people's behavior, "Magnolia" encompasses an inter-connective human bond that accepts reality's blind spots. Purity of intention, as the story suggests, is a happy accident that can hit ev
As the years pass and we are weathered by universal experiences, the predicaments of Anderson's characters seem less pathetic and more like the plight of everyone we love and admire.
