Magnolia Film 1999
Introduction
Magnolia is a movie that represents sadness and loss. It signifies the extensive unpleasantness of the children that are harmed and advanced people who are demolishing themselves. The raconteur of the movie tells us that even if we stop thinking about the past, it will remain haunting us. The film starts with biographies of amazing concurrences such as the scuba frogman who is lifted by a fire fighting airplane and put in a forest fire. The film is thus one of the infrequent films that work in two diverse ways as it tells enthralling stories with more information. The story’s characters are concomitant by blood and their lives are found to be analogous. This essay will focus on personal views about the film from its beginning to end.
Loss of life is rampant in the film and the sad thing is that mostly the loss is through suicide and illegal means. In cases like that of Linda, a conclusion can be made that she attempted to kill herself. She admits that she loved money instead of the man whom she got married to. Now that the man is almost dying and a will is written she is claiming to have already loved Earl. Linda pleads with Earl’s lawyer to make changes in the will which was impossible. She leaves and takes a handful of prescription with alcohol and she almost dies in her vehicle (Lane 74). It was an attempted suicide but she recovers after being rushed to hospital. Other family issues like lack of faithfulness in marriage makes Jimmy decide to commit suicide. Jimmy cheats on his wife but one day he goes home and confesses that he had been cheating. This is because he had molested Claudia but says that he cannot remember whether he really did it. Rose the wife says that Jimmy deserves to die alone and leaves him. In another case a son loads a shotgun hoping that one of his parents would shoot the other, unfortunately he is shot by his own mother mistakenly as the mother was aiming at the father. It becomes murder yet it was suicide as the young man was jumping from the top of the apartment (Lane 13).
In the film we also have people like John C. Reilly whose pilfer balances a fatherly itch with deeper uncertainties masterfully. His eroticism with a drug-addicted Walters seems absolutely touching. His impulse is not to act like a policeman but to help the lady to evade the problem that beholds her. A good thing, as a police he is after the welfare of the lady. Another case is where Tom Cruise is enormously well-cast as the conceited motivational utterer (Lane 56). His interruption to female reporter throughout an interview is remarkably cautious. The only time where Cruise trips completely is where he is forced to cry on Robard’s deathbed in the final scene. Hoffman finally gets to play a more well-balanced human being and does it very significantly after doing well at playing freaks and weirdos. In this final scene we also have big effects, some characters get the chance to meet their purpose. At the same time we have characters who lose their destinies in other scenes which is remarkably painful.
Conclusion
The film “Magnolia” has many incidences that are questionable, the situations seem to be coincidences but are still questioned where they seem to have been planned. It’s important to remember that the film is not randomly inserted to test the audience’s reflexes even with its surprise finish. The whole film includes of lives gaining by getting to their destinies and others losing their goals which also translates to indefinite destinations in life. From this film we learn much about life which should help us watch carefully what we do today because it all forms a record of our past which has an effect on our future. It is with great art that the play writer brings the scenes in an orderly and clear manner making it easy to comprehend to leaning viewers.
Work Cited
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Lane, Christina. Magnolia. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
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