So I wanted to just adapt Aimee’s songs, like you would adapt a book or a play. “It was great to have her music as a thing to latch on to, to help corral all the stuff that was sort of circling around in my brain. “I had a lot of ideas floating around in my head, probably too many ideas, and a really good friend of mine, and was privy to stuff she was working on,” Anderson explained to PopMatters in 1999. Indeed, Anderson cites Mann’s songs as the key inspiration for the film. Reilly, Jason Robards, and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman collaborate to bring Anderson’s ambitious and unique vision to life, an argument can be made that the film’s power derives, first and foremost, from Aimee Mann’s songs. While the top-notch cast that boasts Tom Cruise, William H. Perhaps an acquired taste for some, Paul Thomas Anderson’s intricately executed, emotionally gripping examination of deep-seated family dysfunction, psychological trauma, loneliness, and despair is definitely not for the faint of heart. When I first saw Magnolia in the theater, I was so captivated-and admittedly more than a little confounded-by it, that I returned to see it for a second time just a few days after my initial viewing.
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