He is in love with a girl who is in love with the world. DVDs have commentary tracks . Now, I got burned, and hard, from watching the one on Boogie Nights , which features not just Mister Paul Thomas Anderson , but also his ten year younger rock and roll girlfriend, Fiona Apple , so I'd never make the mistake of listening to the Magnolia track. However, from that experience, I know all too well how serious Mister Anderson takes his work. Perhaps in this sad times we live, these feeble moments which seems to be based entirely in the exploitation of emotion and the humiliation of our fellow man for the sake of some mass produced Reeboks, Paul Thomas Anderson is exactly the sort of film maker we require.
Feeble times require feeble minds.
Magnolia could have just not been made. I'm a big person, so I can admit when people are better at things than I am, and honey, there's no one better at making Paul Thomas Anderson look stupid than Paul Thomas Anderson himself. It's vaguely humiliating being bested like this, but hell, I've got to give it tuh yuh raw. These 30 seconds address the fundmental heart of the age more convincingly, effectively, and ruthlessly than anything I could ever write. We all bait our own traps.