Paul Thomas Anderson has proved himself to be one of the wittiest directors working today. His imagination has come up with a movie that encompasses so many aspects of life and unimaginable personalities. Magnolia, being one of my all-time favorite, has been made that way as you can't resist its catchy magic. With loads of smart ideas and suggestive remarks, Magnolia is laden with a dose of sarcasm, as well. The plot, itself, is very convoluted with perspectives drawn from complete different points of view. The plot is about the lives of several people around the San Fernando Valley each of whom come from unique, yet peculiar, backgrounds. The important fact, surely the most entertaining, about these people is that they share a bizarre connection between them. Some are close relatives, some are friends and others just happen to come across each other. The commonness that they share is so oddly unraveled with the time passing by and each moment the characters meet each other is accompanied by a set of grotesque, weird, extraordinary events which, in meaning, vary from incomprehensible to fanciful. But, it's exactly this peculiarity that entertains the most and that requires every bit of your mind be activated in order to receive the message that the stories convey.
Magnolia entices as much as it enrages. The bewilderment that it creates sometimes might feel nerve-racking but no way can it oust you from the circle of amusement. The cast is what makes all this plexus-tiring composition of ideas work. My all-time favorite actors John C. Reilly, William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman, were the most welcomed part of the entire movie. I should say that Tom Cruise did a marvelous job, as well, on playing an extremely eccentric person I think it's a waste of time to talk about the cinematography or screenplay they both caused a brilliant, sparking effect all along. 10/10
Magnolia entices as much as it enrages. The bewilderment that it creates sometimes might feel nerve-racking but no way can it oust you from the circle of amusement. The cast is what makes all this plexus-tiring composition of ideas work. My all-time favorite actors John C. Reilly, William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman, were the most welcomed part of the entire movie. I should say that Tom Cruise did a marvelous job, as well, on playing an extremely eccentric person I think it's a waste of time to talk about the cinematography or screenplay they both caused a brilliant, sparking effect all along. 10/10