Punch Drunk Love directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
After recently being reminded of the brilliance of Magnolia, I was curious to see this movie which director Paul Thomas Anderson made a couple of years later and before his equally masterful There Will Be Blood
It was a bit of a let down in that it shows all the signs of having been made while suffering from a mighty hangover.
After the complexity of Magnolia’s interwoven plot lines and ensemble cast, not to mention the epic three plus hour length, I can’t blame Anderson for wanting to take on an idiosyncratic love story which is both simpler and shorter. Continue reading
