Cameron

I just made some BULLLLSHITTTT

I LOVE early 2000s thrillers. They all have this weird blue tint and the special effects and editing have a particular charm to them. For its tackiness, it was engaging and fun and I mean it has Matt Damon, what more can you want?

Crazy number of loose ends and an extremely cluttered plot, but still a ridiculous amount of fun and I'm glad it wasn't just a copy-paste of the original plot. Could you call this camp? I think the entirely unnecessary Julia Roberts side plot makes this camp

Jesus Christ (literally) There's a lot that can be said for this movie. I haven't read many reviews, and I'm never good at understanding the hidden messages in movies without a rewatch, but this read to me like a Bible story. The characters in this are sinners, and slackers, and they all have their faults to varying degrees. Some of them are parallels to each other, or older or younger versions, what-ifs and alternates. But each slight difference between them changes the person entirely. What defines someone? Is it their age, their gender, whether they're married, where they live? Is it the people they know? Is it what they believe in, what they say, what they do? Is it how much they love? Is it how they love? Is it how they've been loved? Is it their parents, their past, or their children, their future? Is it how they live? How they die? Is it their mistakes? Or is it their regrets? Everyone in Magnolia makes mistakes. And not just mistakes, they do terrible things, and the consequences are felt fully. And they all try desperately to run from them. But ultimately, everyone has to face the music. In this Bible story, God stops them in their tracks and makes them confront everything they have done. Some of them are never able to confront their mistakes, and they pay the price. But for those who do, there is some degree of forgiveness. They are absolved. Magnolia is about mistakes. But it's not hopeless, because there is forgiveness. The worst and best characters in Magnolia have one thing in common, and that is that they are human. And there is something reassuring in that.