The nice thing about this video is that while it definitely has fun with and gains
emotional punch through stereotypes, it makes its points with facts.
It never feels contrived or overwritten, managing to deftly pack
emotional punches through the strength of its performances and direction.
Not exact matches
The Master means to unsettle — not
through the startling violence of
Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, or the
emotional crescendos of Magnolia, but
through a central relationship that's played for the highest stakes.
But if «Wilson» can pack an
emotional punch, and Harrelson carries his character
through some form of metamorphic arc, anything is possible.
In a now iconic scene from Magnolia, the disparate cast are seen spontaneously singing along to Aimee Mann's Wise Up, while
Punch - Drunk Love (still my favourite Anderson film) finds Adam Sandler picking his way
through the wreckage of his
emotional life with the aid of a mysterious harmonium.
These characters are spliced into one another
through their central
emotional problems, and how they are fixed (or prolonged) to the other characters in Anderson's pictures, but it all culminates with Adam Sandler's terrific dramatic turn as Barry Egan in «
Punch Drunk Love.»
Concluding our 10 - part series of the movies we are most looking forward to next year, we run
through the ones that promise to pack plenty of
emotional punch