The Master | The Sweetness of Freddie

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  • čas přidán 4. 01. 2017
  • Paul Thomas Anderson's character study "The Master" is the subject of this video essay, the film tells of a soldier coming home from the war gives us some of the best work from the brilliant Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, among others. It seems to divide people, many wondering what the point of the film even is, this video aims to look at Freddie, and help shed more light on his misunderstood character.
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    Credits:
    All music from the original soundtrack composed by Jonny Greenwood.
    Paul Thomas Anderson clips lifted from interview with Elvis Mitchell: • Paul Thomas Anderson I...
    The film Anderson used for inspiration:
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    This video was written and edited by Daniel Netzel.
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Komentáře • 430

  • @pavelh756
    @pavelh756 Před 5 lety +621

    For me this is Joaquin's Oscar worthy performance, his facial performance was absolutely stunning in the breakdown scene

  • @girlspooptoo8567
    @girlspooptoo8567 Před 7 lety +449

    This movie is like a really great song that you can't understand the lyrics to. It makes you want to listen to it over and over again until you get it. Most movies are like pop songs. You don't even have to try to understand them

  • @jesseyules
    @jesseyules Před 6 lety +273

    Amy Adams' character was revealed to be the true master in the end. Hoffman's character empathizes with Freddy because he desires to be lead and dominated just like him.

  • @valentina5885
    @valentina5885 Před 6 lety +377

    The interrogation is one of the best scenes I've ever seen

  • @emyf9197
    @emyf9197 Před 4 lety +249

    Joaquins upper lip scar adds to his frieddie quell character

  • @andrewgonzalez6208
    @andrewgonzalez6208 Před 5 lety +142

    Yea if you don’t like amazing performances and cinematography you might be bored.

  • @oncall21
    @oncall21 Před 6 lety +201

    This to date has been Joaquin's best performance. One of the most tragic characters that I have witnessed on the big screen.

  • @yr5334
    @yr5334 Před 3 lety +21

    Joaquin Phoenix performance in this movie is the best acting I have ever seen. Especially the processing scene. He deserved that oscar 100% more than DDL.

  • @adamkoyn792
    @adamkoyn792 Před 5 lety +105

    I'll never understand why Jaoquin didn't take home the Oscar for this... whether or not the content of the film is up your alley, you can't deny brilliant he is

  • @DorianDuVerger
    @DorianDuVerger Před 4 lety +52

    In the future people will talk about The Master in the same breath as they do Citizen Kane

  • @enriquedelayeurrea3451
    @enriquedelayeurrea3451 Před 7 lety +319

    Great essay, although I would argue that at the end there's actually a change in Freddy.

  • @robertc8690
    @robertc8690 Před 7 lety +234

    a wounded animal will often be expelled from its clan so their only option becomes to wander alone in the wilderness and wait to die a slow lonely death

  • @codydagg2259
    @codydagg2259 Před 4 lety +83

    To me, the ending did mean something. His demeanor has definitely changed from being this animal that is constantly lashing out to being a much more mild mannered individual. Sure, he still picks up the girl, but it feels more.. Normal. In a stark contrast to the beginning. That's what group therapy has been for me. Facing things I didn't want to talk about, learning what I could and still going about my daily life in a different way, but the same.

  • @cartoonvandal
    @cartoonvandal Před 5 lety +84

    This film breaks my heart like no other.

  • @dickxonfernando90
    @dickxonfernando90 Před 5 lety +46

    I think freddy changed a bit after met the master

  • @72thekel
    @72thekel Před 5 lety +52

    I think it was a purposeful symmetry of the way the film unfolds, in that it mirrors freddie's life, unfocused and dishoveled. Hence, the shot of the sea is pretty significant, so much that it is used twice, freddie's life IS at sea, waiting for the next place he washes up at.

  • @brigittem2231
    @brigittem2231 Před 5 lety +22

    The score is icing on the cake. I love PTA.

  • @jonathanb1406
    @jonathanb1406 Před 6 lety +35

    This film is a masterpiece for me. I think it's one that people will, and are, appreciating more after the fact rather than when it came out too.

  • @lauraguardiani5972
    @lauraguardiani5972 Před 6 lety +37

    Phoenix...wow....masterly in this film..

  • @blacknapalm2131
    @blacknapalm2131 Před 3 lety +33

    Freddie is perhaps the clearest example I know of what ADDICTION is.