https://globalfilmstudies.com/2012/11/30/the-master-us-2012/ An introduction to global film for teachers and students Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:58:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://globalfilmstudies.com/2012/11/30/the-master-us-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:58:26 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=7838#comment-161 Not my favourite film of this year. It seeemd too long, though I realise you could not really cut it. I had a feeling in the later stages, [not one that occurs too often] that a sequence was the final one: then something happened and we went on – several times.
I still don’t understand why the film was originated in 65mm, even after reading the director’s comments or explanation. I did experience two noticeable moments during the screening. The first of pleasure was when I realised that the motorcycle being raced across the desert flats {Utah?] was a Norton. The other of extreme irritation was when I realised that the writer / director is ignorant that in the winter of 1870 there was the historic Paris Commune.
Anderson has form on the latter. His ‘adaptation’ of of the novel ‘Oil’ into ‘There will be blood’ is the most depoliticised assasination of a literary source that I have ever seen on film.
I read the ‘Sight & Sound’ review and article of the film. It seems that there is a strong Freudian element. But I am not a freudian!

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