“THE MASTER” WRITER/DIRECTOR PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
Source: Filmmaker Magazine
September 14th, 2012 | James Ponsoldt
What master do you worship?
Does your master have a name — God, Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu, Great Spirit, Creator, Father, Mother — or remain nameless? Is He/She/It an abstraction — love, light, power — or have you met? Has your master sat across a table from you and asked you to account for your transgressions? Did you stare your master in the eyes without blinking?
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s sixth feature film, is an epic, 70mm story of tiny details that plays out viscerally on the most complicated expanse imaginable:
The human face.
