Magnolia

Magnolia

What an intricate creation? The movie is extremely long, runs over 3 hours. One of the most complex stories, I have ever seen! Acting performances were immaculate and Tom Cruise was phenomenal as a sex guru. The way this movie starts, makes many promises to viewers and most definitely movie doesn’t disappoint. Going thru twists and turns and interrelation between all characters, I felt puzzled at many instances. It has quite a few dragging lengthy sequences but still you will never come to know that you have actually watched this movie for more than three hours and its over. All different story lines going on at same time eventually tie into one another. The scene with frogs falling from the sky just before the climax justifies how different and puzzling this movie is. Definitely director has tried to give some preaching with the movie that deeds done in the past never leaves a person.

The language used in the movie is outrageously profane but in sync with the script. I will have to watch this movie once again to truly understand as to how the Title ‘Magnolia’ was related to the movie; at least I couldn’t understand the correlation. I am just guessing that all vibrant different colors of human spirit i.e. different characters were being compared with different petals of the flower. You won't like every character, but you will find every character extremely interesting. I've rarely ever seen such deep character portraits in a major motion picture. If you are looking for something different, radical and out of box, this is the movie for you.

My Rating: 7.4 /10
Entertainment Value: 78%