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Postmodernist Film Magnolia
Magnolia is an intelligent postmodernist movie which comes out from the successful and artistic point of view of P.T Anderson. The director is known with his movies with complicated yet meaningful and educational plot lines. With his stories of the charecters which he left no corner of the place hidden, he succeded very much mirroring the individuals' struggles of their life and each of their emotions and psychological issues. The main achievement is that P.T Anderson explained these issues by putting up a solid ground and explaining that neither of the characters has problems without a rational reason. And when we try to get in deeper and try to analyse the characters' backgrounds, we can sense that there might be a mutual knot which is waiting
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