Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie stars Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
For devotees of One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson, he is The Master. That’s also the title of one of Anderson’s finest movies, a mesmerising account of psychological manipulation.
Anderson’s sixth feature followed There Will Be Blood (2007), a story of ruthless ambition told through the relationship between a wealthy oil driller, his mute son, and a religious preacher. The brooding, sprawling epic contains some of the ideas that Anderson explored in a smaller scale in his seventh movie, The Master (2012) – the surrender of the self to a cult, the power dynamic between a mentor and his follower, and the anxieties of American manhood.
The Master can be rented from YouTube Movies. The film has a fine cast of actors led by two of the greatest representatives of the profession: Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
