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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: THE ANDERSONS: The Master (2012)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, drinking fuel, military, war, isolation, mental illness, murder, sexual addiction, sexual obsession, violence, incest, cults, Scientology, manipulation.
We were so excited for this week. A film we’d had built up in our heads from the trailers, the mystery, the Scientology connections. So it was a major bummer to see Paul Thomas Anderson pull a Kubrick on this film and miss the point entirely for this story to succeed. It’s not like he didn’t have a unique and th...