saw The Master

[huisache]

The only excuse I can see for making it was to give Phoenix and Hoffman chances to show how good they are together or by their lonesome. But I already knew that.

Anybody give me a clue about the narrative? It was either so flat or so oblique that its point escaped me.

It was like an Emily Dickinson poem: I feel almost certain it had a point but could not figure out what it might be.

Fine acting though, even from the non leads.

 

[Dionysus]

So I was reading a review on this film today, and I was all: hm. PS-H is usually solid or at least interesting, and likely worth the admission alone so there’s that. Amy Adams affects me in an undemanding but succulently lewd way, sort of like a (hypothetical) neighbor’s cute wife who I once (at most) dreamed was weeding my garden in her lacy underwhatnots. That’s all you need to know.

But: Joaquin Phoenix. I just don’t get it.