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I agree with your assessment. The power dynamic is so dissected in this work. And so beautifully shown in the changes over the course of the film. As the characters learn from eachother and change, we change with them. But its not always literally or immediately obvious whats happening. Depending on who we identify with in the moment, but ultimately we know Freddie sees the bullshit in Lancaster and also the value. And Dodd sees the beautiful relentlessly wild, free spirit of Freddie and envies it. And its so satisfying that Freddie chooses to embrace his own journey in the end..and even though its Lancaster who has this plan, and these goals, while F,reddie does not.. its Dodd who seems to fears his own fate, worse than Freddie fears his own.

Great video!❤

beautifully articulated

I think it’s rather lazy to assume Mrs Danverse had a lesbian attachment to Rebecca. Modern audiences tend to rush to that conclusion but human psychology is much more complex than we give it credit for. Mrs Danverse was insane. There is no logic to her obsession with Rebecca. We aren’t told the history of how Danny came to work for Rebecca but there’s clearly a history there and Rebecca’s narcissism was happy to feed on Danny’s devotion to her. This is all purely psychological and doesn’t have to imply anything homosexual. You say it’s surprising or laughable that contemporary film audiences didn’t seem to notice the lesbian element, but you’re wrong - they didn’t notice it because it’s not there. You are the one reading it into the story.

the film’s opening shot is out of control…interestingly, the trees in the frame are Monterey cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa) a non-native species from california..the film takes place around the last half of the 18th century (the film alludes to both the 7 years war and american revolution)…this tree was sampled and seed/saplings were taken back to europe (the Kew Gardens) by german botanist karl theodor around 1840. so, although notirious for his quest of verisimiltude and realism..kubrick fucked up in his (arguably) greatest shot, frame and film opening ever…go figure

Great review of a great movie

I really enjoyed your commentary. However I found “the girl” to be suspicious as just appearing. She seemed somewhat connected to the men at the end scene who are there to kill the main character. If she is indeed implicated in the pursuit of him, maybe that makes her not just for him, but as someone who also is a passenger in an initial mission, and then life interrupts, and carries us all to a totally different destination. Great job here in catching and transmitting the best moments. The ones you chose are all my favorites. Especially his spreading his wings above the water.

It took me over a decade to find this gem. As soon as i saw the scene with Phoenix and Hoffman, i knew i was a goner. Whats interesting and frightening is the processing scene. I experienced a similar method while in a trauma group several years ago. It can be very effective in finding sources of truth and trauma. Wonderful video and explanation.

What makes The Master so great is the story that keeps you hooked on the film all the time and also Joaquin Phoenix's performance, who let me know he's not only known for his Joker's role, he can also be able to surprises us with unbelievable performances like his Freddie Quell's role in The Master. Actually, I saw the movie, and I found it incredible, and at the same time, a great way to remember the late actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman as he's no longer with us 10 years ago, OMG how quickly time passes by.

Yup 👍 when it's like that.where 's the f ...war,? meme used a that photo of Jack 3 weeks in to the Ukraine 2022 . Eh he's more mystical than God dard .

Too disgusting.I stopped at 3:56

I repeat - NO ISSUE cones up about intimacy. What smutty turn of thought prompts all this flagrant BS? I am more appalled by this post than by any other I can remember. 😡😡😡😡

Questions don't arise about Maxim's impotence in an estate manor with century+-old separate rooms for marital partners. NO ISSUE about such issues shows up but for leering posts like yours.

ESS-pecially - not EX-pecially. 3:15 We don't see the murder of Rebecca because THERE IS NO MURDER! For pete'ss sake, watch the film.😡 Do *proper research* before posting.

100 subscribers is crazy.i thoughtbthis was a 200k view video.

Fantastic essay, can't wait to watch more of your vids! I did have a thought though, you say at one point that Freddie accidentally kills his co worker. I don't think it's a mishap, right after he gives him the drink he says "You remind me of my father", later on when Dodd's processing him, we find out his dad died from alcohol poisoning, and when asked if the drink kills he says "Not if you drink it responsibly", but when he gives it to the guy he tells him "all in one gulp". I think he was trying to kill him or at least hurt him, maybe stemming from his trauma as a child, who knows.

Excellent!!! Thanks so much

freddie is a fucking pedophile bro my ass does not give a shit about freddie lmao my god PTA's movies are such dogshit

Just stooping by, and search new Antonioni essays here on yt. I know yours' not new, but it's my first time seeing it. Besides all you said, I enjoyed the choice you made about the music. That guitar song, I know it's part of the movie (in the hotel with the swimming pool, to name it), do you know that song? I'm from Portugal, but I love popular songs from Spain. This is a traditional tune from Catalonia (having been interpreted by the great Joan Manuel Serrat, too. That's how I got to know it), and it's called "La mort del lladre". Well, now that I have the opportunity, and I haven't read any critic talking about it (at the moment, I own and read twelve books about MA: he's my favorite visual artist), let me say, as you already know, that nothing that appears, visually or audibly, in Ma's films are meaningless. Translated and briefly, "La mort dell lladre", means "the death of the robber" and, the lyrics end with him paying for his crime: to steal. (in the song the penalty is apparently lighter: he ends up in prision. Unless if we want to see those bars as his kind of prision... It would match perfectly) So, here's my humble contribution. 😊 Thanks for your video. Do you want to make one for L'eclisse? Or (my MA favorite, though far from his best) Zabriskie Point?

one of my favorite books. You can feel the presence of rebecca in the other book by dumarier titled "my cousin rachel"

Joaquin's best performance in my opinion. And one of PS Hoffman's best. This movie is so much more than the Joker. And yet the Joker has really high ratings, while the Master is underrated. Everything from sub-text to film-making wise is far superior to the Joker. I really believe that the Joker will not date well. But The Master will be more appreciated as the years pass.

I just watched this last night and was completely drawn in by it.

Very helpful, the movie is so vague and enigmatic, good perspective here

David (Hume) / (John) Locke: British empiricists, for whom only observable experience matters in constructing meaning, embodied in a British man raised in America, a nation in which self-reinvention amd escaping one's past is an obsession.

Jane Fontaine??? Maxim's impotence? Lesbian relationship?? Rebecca's death was NOT a murder in the movie, only in the book! What movie were you watching? You didn't mention the most glaring absence from the film... HER name!!

This is basically an existential film if you touch on existentialism it runs parallel with the basics of the philosophy. How to remain authentic in an absurd world.

It's not Mandaly: it's Manderly...Man-DER-ly.

This film is way betyter than the Marlowe film Marlowe, with James Gardner, whjich is flimed very similarly, that film I think is the worst Marlowe film ever made.

At the time very inltersting casting. Nina Van Palandt I think her name was, was involved in teh phony Howard Hughes novel, and got this role. Jim Boton, a former baseball player had a few years before written BALL FOUR, which made a lot of baseball players angry because he exposed many to how they were. Finally even Arnold Scwarzenneger, who had really no acting up to that time, maybe this one HERCULES IN NEW YORK I Think. What was also interesting to note, and not mentioned any where of the analysis that I have seen yet, in Chandlers book SPOLER ALERT, Marlone does not kill Bouton character. First time I saw the film, was on networki TV. Yes cut of course, but what I actually found more effective, was when Marlowe kills the guy at the end, we only see him pulling out the gun and firing. I saw it in the theater later, and sure enough felt the seeing Bouton's characer falling into the water not as effective. Finally while the iflm first time really bombed, I think it was rereleased the same year, and did much better.

There are two othr films. One with Jeremy Brett, the second with Charles Dance.

Poetic. Simple plot , yet poignant insights brought out by enigmatic usage of motion picture and acoustic guitar.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE 🍿. But, I cannot tell you why. I own several different posters for the movie.🎥

I liked your video. One of my favorite films. It is like being in a dream that turns into a nightmare.

He was riding through the Irish countryside

A lot of people seem to miss that Dodd is portrayed purposefully as a fool most of the time, to the audience. In fact, he is so self-deluded that he comes off as the 'animal' moreso than Freddy, who just is. Freddy fulfills a need in Dodd's life that is otherwise absent. The scene with Freddy and Winn in bed is important. It shows how Freddy has taken something from Dodd's teachings, but left behind all the bullshit. He appropriates Dodd's mindgame and uses (subconsciously) it as a way to find a deeper connection to Winn. Freddy doesn't need to "return his mind to perfection", he just needs love and connection, and he takes what he learned from Dodd (NOT what Dodd was teaching him) and applies it in order to get what he needs. I hate to say this but it's almost as if Freddy has become his own Master. ugh. sorry.

I was confused at how he died at the end.

Please continue making videos, I love your takes. Thanks!

That's a great undersranding of what "The Master" is about. Of course, like you said, "The Master" has many themes in it, but by the end of the film it is about Freddy Kuell. That was definitely missed on me the first, and only time I saw the film. I had a cynical look on the film. I thought it was trying to say how all people are messed up and can't change for the better. That take on it was probably more a reflection of my own perspective on my own life at the time than an accurate understanding of "The Master." Glad to get another perspective on the film. Thanks.

It’s maxim not Maxine And it’s Joan not Jane This is my favourite movie I love it and to hear the actors names mispronounced just gets on my wick ! As for mrs Danvers I’m not convinced she was a lesbian but she might have been intoxicated by Rebecca’s beauty as it seems most people were ! Rebecca was I feel the ultimate malignant narcissist with her charm and beauty covering a can of ugly worms and of course all her flying monkeys like mrs Danvers and her creepy cousin Favell Who is so smarmy and in his own way very handsome , giving us a clue to the breathtaking beauty his cousin Rebecca must have had and his vile personality which must be similar to Rebecca’s/ not forgetting their incestuous affair which might have produced an imposter heir ! God certainly struck down those two creeps . I read the sequel I don’t recommend it It spoilt my imagined future of the new Mrs and Mr De Winter , but to give you a clue my imagination was a lot kinder to them than the author of the sequel was ….

*He is not MaxIME!* SURELY you watched the film. *MAXim.* And ManderLEY does not have LAY at the end! Basic respect to author and actors: *pronounce words correctly.* 😡😡😡😡

I was keen to watch this review, but find it seriously wanting in proper adult insight. Time to stop ( 3:45 )

NO WORD OR THOUGHT of Maxim as impotent! This is a trash point from 70+ years on, unworthy of mature analysis. Also NO MENTION of a 2-way lesbian relationship. Mind out of gutters please.

There is NO MURDER in the film! Watch it again. Censors would not allow a murderer to go unpunished - so it was changed to Rebecca's fall and hitting her head on hard metal.

Not you too! 😵‍💫😡 LISTEN to both Joan (even in her very first line) and Laurence. ManderLEE! MandaLAY is a city in Burma. It's *basic respect* to pronounce correctly.

A most important element that you forgot: The name of Rebecca is the most important element in the movie. That the name of the 2nd Mrs DeWinter is NEVER mentioned is a brilliant way to further highlight this element.

Well, let me weigh in here. I was actually AT that Tarrytown screening in January 1973 (thanks for mentioning it). I was applying to NYU filmschool and my parents gave me the Judith Crist Weekend as a Christmas present. Unlike the previous time Altman was there, playing nothing but his films, this time they chose to play all the previous Marlowe films, after which we piled onto buses and drove to a "sneak preview" of TLG the weekend before it was to open. Altman, his editor Louis Lombardo, and the United Artists suits were all in the back of the mall theatre. And the audience - many of whom had just watched six or seven vintage Philip Marlowe films - HATED it. And (I'm not kidding) directly attacked Altman to his face at a Q&A back at Tarrytown ("you're just a 45-year-old man trying to be 'with-it.'") UA pulled the next weekend's release and didn't bring it out for eight or nine months (with the MAD Magazine artwork). (You can track down a "Saturday Review" article about this, written by Playboy's film critic Bruce Williamson - I'm the film student mentioned in the article.). Fortunately the film survived all this crap, and now it's considered as one of Altman's finest - but this weekend's screening definitely slowed down his momentum. And I was there.

アントニオーニの映画はほぼ観たけど、これが一番印象深い。

Excellent analysis.

good stuff

People don't now that in the 1930's and 40's when the seal of approval by the censors flashed on the screen n the theater, the audience booed!