Magnolia

“We might be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us” How do you even write a review for this?? It’s so giant, so all encompassing. It’s so breathtaking and so marvellous, so human. How do you make dialogue this perfect, camerawork so incredible, music so powerful. Every performance in this is one of the best, Stanley is one of my favourite characters in any movie, and John C. Reilly’s performance is so unfathomably perfect. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is the greatest actor ever. Frank Mackey, what can I even say?? And that thing that happens at the end (just watch the movie), how is that so amazing???? This is the quickest 3 hours ever, it flies by. And this movie has the best opening 10 minutes in any movie ever. Magnolia is such a perfect movie, I’m still certain that I don’t fully understand everything presented here because it’s so huge.