더 마스터, 폴 토마스 앤더슨, 2012, 미국
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012
- Following his discharge from the US Navy after WWII, Freddie Quell is having difficulties adjusting to non-military life partly due to his war experiences in the tropics. He has a violent temper. He is obsessed with sex, which is partly why he can't and won't commit to his teenaged girlfriend, Doris Solstad. And he is an alcoholic, drinking primarily concoctions he creates himself with dangerous ingredients. It is these factors in combination that lead to him being fired from one job after another, from department store portrait photographer to cabbage picker. Wandering one night in 1950 while drunk, he stumbles upon a yacht being used by Lancaster and Peggy Dodd, the yacht aboard which their daughter Elizabeth will get married. Feeling a connection to the stranger, Lancaster invites Freddie to stay aboard to work. In addition to that work, Lancaster indoctrinates him into his cult, named the Cause, which purports to do things as varied as cure serious maladies and create world peace....
** Joaquin Phoenix의 조커 연기의 일말을 볼 수 있었다.
** 이성/감성 꽤나 (데칼코마니적) 포스터 만들기에는 적합한 플롯
** 사드, 조르주 바타유, 미셸 푸코가 떠올랐음
* 2014년에 Philip Seymour Hoffman의 죽음은 아이러니하게도 약물 복용이 원인이었다..
