THE MASTER Film Review

By | September 14, 2012




Every so often a movie comes along that evokes mixed emotions and causes one to debate the relevance of the storyline. One can undoubtedly question the meaning and purpose of Director PT Anderson’s (There Will Be Blood, 2007), overall objective of this project. The heavy overtone jab, at the well-known celebrity-filled religious-sect affiliated with modern science, is in-your-face obvious from start to finish. Some might argue that like the real-life story, this flick portrays a story rooted in power, corruption, and deception, and is obviously a cautionary tale of what happens when we put our faith and trust into the wrong hands. This is an emotional (and somewhat disturbing) drama, that caused me to think of the two leading characters as being not unlike the twisted (late) Reverend Jim Jones and his possibly meeting an alcoholic version of Forest Gump, by twisted fate.  READ FULL REVIEW

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