☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
The Master (2012) -- P. T. Anderson
Joaquin Phoenix gives
a really weird performance, really weird but committed and striking, as a man
who wanders into a cult (that is not exactly Scientology). Philip Seymour Hoffman also turns on the
acting juice as the titular leader, seemingly making it up as he goes along
with science fiction flair and a hostile defensiveness toward criticism. These characters occupy an amazingly
photographed late 1940s/early 1950s landscape and an opaquely plotted story
that leaves room for numerous interpretations and motivations. Expect nothing less than an absorbing,
sometimes confronting, often puzzling, but ultimately thought provoking work of
art from Paul Thomas Anderson.
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