Favorite moments of cinema: Magnolia

The birth of a master, Magnolia can be the most complex and clearer film testimony about the so-called structure and characters, which are developed here under 9 subplots that despite having a subtle narrative union between them, keep an evolutionary link within the 3 essential acts of the approach, confrontation and resolution.

It's notorious the birth of a narrative revolution within this work of Paul Thomas Anderson, although the filmmaker could denote various influences throughout his career, Magnolia is undeniably his most innovative and/or creative authorial stamp.

Based on the fact that the prologue of the film is an excellent lesson in good cinema, this film is one of the best films of this century. Paul Thomas Anderson offers us a very long and extremely well elaborated film full of message, full of humanity and full of alleged inconsistencies that, in one way or another, will fascinate everyone who sees the film.

And this fascination not only emerges from the message and reflection present in the film. Magnolia introduces us to the most critical and decisive moments of characters interconnected with each other thanks to perfectly annexed scenes that, in addition, have dialogues of infarction and an absolutely perfect score. All variables of an equation whose final result is pure genius.

The "false" imbroglio in which the director engages in narrating the story of 9 characters at a crucial moment in their lives (and all of these in different stages and ages), cannot be further removed from the term "entangled" or "crossed", being the narrative development a comfortable experience thanks to a superb and agile direction that knows perfectly all its files and the exact moment of time for each of them. From social disapproval to drug addiction or suicide, from relational breakdown to death, work embarrassment, marital deception or parental traumas, PTA subjects the viewer to an empathic spiral as wonderful and welcoming as frustrating and shocking. Who are these people? Nurses, wives, celebrities, ordinary people, who through their emotions and the trepidante rhythm of the director, project complicated issues that contrary to what you think, are the newspaper within a society.

Beyond the aforementioned subtle union between these 9 beings, what truly turns Magnolia into a convergence without equal is the emotional empathy of each of the characters, majestically contextualized at key moments with a montage task synonymous with perfection.

Although the score, the performances and the story are fascinating, Magnolia asks you for something in return. And this film requires an exercise in moral reflection. Reflection about forgiveness, repentance, love, coincidences and respect.

Undoubtedly one of the most unjustly punished and undervalued pieces in history, this jewel managed to make only the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival and a Golden Globe deserved by Tom Cruise as best supporting actor (his best performance and the best year of his career, considering that he worked with Stanley Kubrick that same year).

It's necessary to save this piece of the certain collective oblivion in which is currently and give it the place it deserves as one of the best dramas in history. Raw, human and wonderful, PTA thanks to its excellent structure and development (script and direction), it even gives the pleasure of including not only an infinity of characters around its flower, but also phenomena that border on the surreal, both musical and dreams, just to make it clear that your perfect circle of 9 is so solid that even such resources seem only logical and necessary. Magnificent!