magnolia
Many of you have probably seen it, because it isn't a new movie, but I just watch Magnolia for the first time last night. I liked it.
It is a movie that has so many layers that it really should be seen more than once in order to catch all the references and parallels.
For example
The two whiz kids, Donnie and Stanley, have similar childhoods. However, Stanley stands up to his father and the game show host and refuses to play along. The scene that shows Stanley taking refuge in the library with all his books and then telling his father to be nicer to him is paralleled with Donnie's break-in and then follow-up break-in. It seems like Stanley is on the way to having a better life than the one that Donnie has ended up with, so possibly there is a double-meaning in Donnie's keys that say Do Not Duplicate.
Someone or maybe more than one person, states in the movie "it is raining cats and dogs" which could be a foreshadowing of what it really does rain on Magnolia Blvd later in the movie. Cats and dogs, however, are also the symbol that Frank uses describing men and women (the poster behind him on stage shows a huge dog or wolf chasing a cat, in his interview with the investigative reporter he pants like a dog with his tongue wagging while she tells him "Calm down, be a good boy") so this line might also refer to all the cheating that both the men and women are confessing to. It is also suggested that Frank is really packaging and selling the method or lifestyle that his dying father actually lived out. Also, compare Frank to the decent-guy Jim, the cop. Compare the well-produced commercial for Jim's seminars with the very crappy commercial for the dating service that Jim calls.
Anyway, watch the movie. This will all make sense after you've seen it and I'm sure there are things you will have noticed that you can point out in the comments.
It is a movie that has so many layers that it really should be seen more than once in order to catch all the references and parallels.
For example
The two whiz kids, Donnie and Stanley, have similar childhoods. However, Stanley stands up to his father and the game show host and refuses to play along. The scene that shows Stanley taking refuge in the library with all his books and then telling his father to be nicer to him is paralleled with Donnie's break-in and then follow-up break-in. It seems like Stanley is on the way to having a better life than the one that Donnie has ended up with, so possibly there is a double-meaning in Donnie's keys that say Do Not Duplicate.
Someone or maybe more than one person, states in the movie "it is raining cats and dogs" which could be a foreshadowing of what it really does rain on Magnolia Blvd later in the movie. Cats and dogs, however, are also the symbol that Frank uses describing men and women (the poster behind him on stage shows a huge dog or wolf chasing a cat, in his interview with the investigative reporter he pants like a dog with his tongue wagging while she tells him "Calm down, be a good boy") so this line might also refer to all the cheating that both the men and women are confessing to. It is also suggested that Frank is really packaging and selling the method or lifestyle that his dying father actually lived out. Also, compare Frank to the decent-guy Jim, the cop. Compare the well-produced commercial for Jim's seminars with the very crappy commercial for the dating service that Jim calls.
Anyway, watch the movie. This will all make sense after you've seen it and I'm sure there are things you will have noticed that you can point out in the comments.