[SPOILER ALERT!!!!!]
What can I say?
...about a movie where the acting is
exceptional, and in the case of Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffmann,
brilliant?
...about a film filmed
in 65mm format using Panavision’s System
65mm camera. The process can be projected in 70mm and is stunning, giving some
of the most glorious film images of recent years?
...about both Phoenix and Hoffman portraying men you can
alternately love and hate. I find it difficult to identify with morally bankrupt characters.
...about the protagonist hallucinating at a party and seeing all the women in the
room—of a variety of ages up their 70s or 80s—nude and bouncy?
...about Amy Adams, of Doubt and Julia & Julie, playing the
pregnant wife of Philip Seymour Hoffman and giving him a hand-job in his bathroom?
...about the same Amy Adams reading pornography directly to the
camera?
Many people will feel strongly one way or another about this
film. I only know when I saw one of the 80 year old parishioners from church
walking out of the film, I didn’t want to meet her eye.
Should you see this film? Yes. No. Maybe.
The Master (2012) ****
EXACTLY!
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