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| | Magnolia (1999): Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | And so, too, in Magnolia the atmospheric (and invisible) minutiae which produce the weather are repeated and reflected in the hidden webs of desire and experience which connect the various characters and their lives. |
 | | After the many horrors of the past and their interconnections are revealed, after we have seen exactly how the "sins of the father" have been carried upon the sons and daughters, we are given a good old fashioned, Exodus-style plague of frogs falling from the skies. |
 | | Magnolias philosophical ruminations on chance, interconnection, and causality, and on happiness, forgiveness, and redemption opens a door, if only for a brief time, onto a vision of subjectivity and the human condition rarely seen in film. |
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