Rating of
4/4
The Master is Brilliant
Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 03/06/13
The Master is my favorite film of 2012 (Beasts of the Southern wild comes in at a close second,) so there you go. I’m personally really sad that this movie hasn’t got that much recognition. It got a lot of hype as an Oscar contender when it was first released, but was soon forgotten, why? Why did everyone forget about this brilliant film? I personally loved it.
The movie is about a disturbed man who falls in with a religious cult and his relationship with the leader of said cult. I’m a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan, and honestly think that he’s the best filmmaker working today, and while the master isn’t his best it’s one of his better films.
The acting is wonderful, that goes without saying, but the film itself is haunting, it lingers on the mind. The way The Master weaves a steady rhythm of fear and paranoia is just wonderful and even thought provoking. You may be surprised how similar looking at these disturbed human beings is to looking into a mirror.
The Master is not only my favorite movie of the year, but one of the best I’ve seen this decade (I know that’s not saying much, after all the decade just started.) I really hope that, over time, more people find and watch this astonishingly good movie.
