Deconstructing 'The Master'
By Glenn Whipp
We know Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic showman Lancaster Dodd is many things: a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher, for starters. But, as Dodd reminds us in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," he is "above all, a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man."
We know Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic showman Lancaster Dodd is many things: a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher, for starters. But, as Dodd reminds us in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," he is "above all, a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man."
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Deconstructing 'The Master'
Even after seeing Anderson's deeply engaging film a handful of times, we still find ourselves hopelessly inquisitive, too, about its messages and meaning, not to mention whether a sailor could really drain and drink the alcohol from a torpedo and live to tell the tale. So we combed through the interviews Anderson has given recently, allowing him to explain or, at least, explore some of the mysteries in "The Master."
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