You Aren't Expecting What The Master is Giving

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Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix shake the Master's heart.
Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix shake the Master's heart.
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The Master

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Laura Dern.

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The film's ambiguity could hardly be unintentional, but more interesting is Anderson's use of sumptuous technique to tell a story defined by withholding. The viewing experience, akin to grasping for something just out of reach in a dream is neatly mirrored by one of Dodd's exercises, in which Freddie is forced to pace a room and describe the same wall and the same window with new language each time. It's a film of breathtaking cinematic romanticism and near-complete denial of conventional catharsis. You might wish it gave you more in terms of comfort-food pleasure, but that's not Anderson's problem. You've just seen too many movies about incommunicative fuck-ups who manage to break down their defenses at some convenient third-act moment. By not opening up that valve, The Master forces the question of whether personality change is possible — or even advisable.

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