"I'm sure you can relate to this: Few things in life annoy me more than having to remember all my passwords. I could spill sauce all over my shirt and still hold my temperbut nothing infuriates me more than going through "I forgot my password" emails just to create yet another login that I'll forget again. So, you could imagine how much fun I was having in the theater watching One Battle After Another."
"That's often the case with Paul Thomas Anderson's films. He's one of my favorite directors, in part because he gravitates toward these short-tempered and out-of-the-loop characters to drive his stories. In Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler does his best pre-Uncut Gems dramatic rage routine. Daniel Day-Lewis can barely stand mild annoyances in Phantom Thread, and Joaquin Phoenix's Inherent Vice P.I. stumbles around a noir that simply takes care of itself."
Password frustration provides a memorable anecdote when Leonardo DiCaprio's character screams into a payphone because he cannot remember a password during a life-or-death emergency. Paul Thomas Anderson often focuses on short-tempered, out-of-the-loop protagonists, a tendency visible in Punch-Drunk Love, Phantom Thread, and Inherent Vice. One Battle After Another teams Anderson with DiCaprio; DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a stoned, paranoid ex-revolutionary pushed back into violence after Colonel Lockjaw kidnaps his daughter. The film combines dark humor, intense action, and complex character work, delivering one of DiCaprio's funniest performances and generating significant controversy.
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