Famed internet critic, Darren Foley notes the doppelgangers and psychological aspects of the film.
Despite my previous encounter with cults in Fight Club and Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011, I hadn't noticed the dark side of the religion in the film. The sort of brainwashing in this film that people seem to agree with that many right wingers may not have picked upon in There Will Be Blood.
The acting, the directing, the script, the research and the performances are really tested.
I gave Robert De Niro the Best Supporting Actor award in 2012, because he played a very over the top and dark character with some humor and even some empathy in Silver Linings Playbook. He's always a great actor, and I felt that would be an underrated role for him so I gave him the award.
However, with my sudden revelation of how dark and more complex yet sympathetic Lancaster Dodd's character in the Master is
Freddie Quill doesn't have much going for him and there doesn't need to be. He's a violent stupid militaristic backward fist full of cuffs fighter that we can't but feel empathy for, no matter how selfish he is. I don't feel the impact of his character like with Nagisa Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth, because he's so much more relatable, not to mention it being an American story and I, being an American.
Noticeable is the contrast between these two characters in a time when Napoleonic division between poor and wealthy is present in our world.
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