I’ll report back after what I thought of it, but I think the last Paul Thomas Anderson film I saw was There Will Be Blood, which certainly was an film.
So… This was a weird movie. It’s long. Very long. Too long. Performances and all that stuff is great, though I can never see Leo Dicaprio as anyone but Leo Dicaprio no matter how hard he tries.
The thing is that the film is kinda disjointed. It’s part a Coen brothers-esque farce, and a pretty decent one at that, but then it has this blatant direct depiction of the modern American racist military police state and I’m like… Cool I guess but this is just what we see on the news every day. It doesn’t really mesh together all that well I find, and PTA indulges a little bit too much in some funky cinematography in moments where it absolutely doesn’t work.
Also fucking hell Sean Penn looks like absolute shit lol.
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Dang! It looked interesting too. There’s so many movies I wanna see rn tho so I’m not sure if I will catch it…
I get the sense that the movie might hit quite different if you’re US-based. My main complain is that it’s just a bit too long for the story it’s trying to tell, and there’s a bit of a thematic copout at the very very end that left a bad taste in my mouth.
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