Movie Review – The Master

An opening image of churning waters of an unknown force cause the volatility of the deep water to become restless and constantly moving.  This image will come back several times during the viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, The Master.  It isn’t revealed until later what causes the rift in the water, two different boats that are cutting through the seas, each one with a different purpose than the other, but both are on a journey that neither are aware of what waits for them.  This is case file, a study about two individuals who are on a journey in which their paths will collide.  Volatile, uncertain, constantly changing, the perfect ebb and flow for their meeting.

Movie of the Day – Solaris (1972)

This is a spoiler warning for those that are hoping to find a movie that has lasers, space battles, sexy green alien chicks, lightsabers, and cool looking spaceships.  You aren’t going to find any of that stuff in this science fiction film from acclaimed, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.  Instead of all of the usual science fiction tropes we get these days, you are getting an incredible introspective, slow and psychologically deep film about understand humanity and its existence, just like everything that has come out of Russia cause that’s how they roll.