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You can easily describe writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's films as "eclectic". Of course, there are line places - internal lives, disadvantages of characters, complex relationships. Many draw their essence from a certain time and place, making the starvation in which the character reveals. There is always a drama, but also comedy, romance and uncertainty. And, of course, the camera rarely stops moving.

In a way, then, "One Battle by Other" is Anderson's ultimate film. Each of those pieces is in the game through the nearly three -hour film duration, creating a self -proclaimed EP, which is also an adventure thriller in comedy and action, modern blockbuster and retro Hollywood, political didtop and character drama. Also, it is not perfect, occasionally swelling over its own ability to properly order. But then, maybe that was the exact intention.

The previous semantic conversation about Anderson's artistic sensibilities, "one battle after another", is at the essence, a roller coaster. There are chases of cars that will remind you of "Bulit" and immigration raids and police protests that will remind you of now. To the end, "One battle after another" It leaves you breathless, but not without time to process what happened. There is no clifancher, but there is openness to the way the film ends, unfinished quality, which provides a different kind of pleasure.

"One battle after another" is the EP literally, dragging its relatively small group of basic characters through an escalating string of dangers through space and time. The story opens to the release of a militant US revolutionary group called French 75, which has the form of an attack on an immigrant detention center near the US-Mexico border. Successful raid releases all detainees, but not before leader Perfidia Beverly Hills (Tejana Taylor) crosses paths with sexually confused military man Steven J. Lokjav (John Penn), who develops an obsession with her and begins to monitor the group's activities.

Fast forward past several successful operations that rob banks and bombard free political offices and a strange, something disturbing sexual encounter between Perfidia and Lokjav, and find the revolutionary leader strongly pregnant with no signs that she has stopped her radical search for freedom and justice. The identity of the baby's father is left unclear for most of the film between the true revolutionary and romantic partner of Perfidia, Pat (Leonardo DiCaprio). A powerful period of postpartum depression leads to more careless behavior than perfidious, which attracts it into the hands of the law. Endangered for decades, that rats of her former colleagues in exchange for a Witness Protection Arrangement set by Lokjav, which eventually grants gives the opportunity to escape to Mexico.

The film then jumps 16 years to find a path that lives like Bob Ferguson in the city of Baktan Cross, where she raises her and daughter of Perfidia, Villa (Chase Infiniti), under constant paranoia and eternal state of fugue. When Lokjav's application in a secret cult of white Surrealicist brokers for the Christmas adventurous club threatens to discover his potential child with Perfidia, the now-colonel launches a militant anti-immigrant raid on Baktan Cross to find and find them.

After a series of action pieces in the center of Bob and Villa Karate Sensei, Sergio St Carlos (Benissio del Toro), "One Battle After Another" is being built in a climate show on the mission where the former French 75 member Deandra (Regina Hall) brought her a villa. The place is directed by Lokjav and his men, and he faces his probable daughter in the church, where he manages a DNA test that ultimately confirms his fatherhood.

Desperate to hide the evidence of his earlier "mixing of the race", he handed it over to the Avanti (Eric Schwegh) sales hunter, which he delivered to a white-supremacist militia to dispose of it. However, Avanti has a second thought and ends up fatally with the killers, allowing Villa to escape. At the same time, Lokjav is hunting and blown up on the road from Tim (Johnon Hogenker), a member of the Christmas adventurous club, who revealed the truth of his crimes against white racial cleanliness. Lokjav miraculously survives the attack, but was later killed by the group after being introduced into their "southwestern headquarters" under false claims for membership. Deandra has been arrested by the military.

After a tense chase from cars, Villa shoots a team dead, just moments before Bob finally found it and took her home. In the final scenes, Bob gives a letter to a villa written by her mother, who apologizes for her coward and sends hope that she will one day be combined. Then the villa listens to protests that take place in Oakland and enters the car to join them, showing that the revolutionary spirit lives in it.

Although it is absent from most of the film, Perfidia is a great one above all that happens. Her shocking decision to betray the French 75 to ensure his own freedom - a decision that many have died than simply arrested - feels clumsy with what we see next to her. But as the film goes on and we hear more about her from the various people who knew her, the pieces gather.

The fiery dedication of her liberation, primarily, along with powerful postpartum depression and a sense of isolation after her daughter's birth, eventually moves her away from the community where she once felt at home. It is reasonable to believe that Bob lied to the villa for being a hero, not only to protect his daughter, but because he really forgives her for what he did.

In her letter, Perfidia writes that she hopes her daughter will not make the same mistakes she has made - that she will find her own, better way to help the world change for the better. In a movie full of ugliness and violence, the latest footage of a villa that pulls off the highway is deep and simply optimistic. Pasting the time and evolution of the fight with it brings a kind of victory, even when the world continues to fight so much evil.

Given the movie messages, it's sad and it's worth criticizing that Production had an insincere community forcibly moved while filming in Sacramento.

On the opposite side of the trail of the relatively happy end of Bob and Villa, we have the club for Christmas adventurers - sneakers, sad, cult of rich white overpowering so racist and hateful that it is played for an extreme dark comedy. The film has no words, linking this underground infrastructure with the public work conducted by Lokjav and others about his conviction in the police and the military. In fact, it is essentially stated that the only reason he considers it membership is because his broad anti -immigrant work is beautifully aligned with the xenophobic views of the clan.

It is worth noting here that the original title of "one battle after another" was the "Battle of Baktan Cross", centering the second act of the film, where Sensi Saints Carlos reveals the wide infrastructure built to organize and protect the immigrant community in the city. Where Lokjav's machine is purely based on a teles of violence, everything we see from the Baktan Cross community is built on the principles of care, healing and peace. When violence broke out on the streets of the city between protesters and police, it's just because Lokjav sends plants to the crowd to throw explosives and give his people a license to attack.

In a way, the siege of the city of Lokjav is an act of self -amplification. His violence against his own daughter, who is too cowardly to carry out, emerges as an attempt to kill the last part of what could be a real humanity - a necessity to join the cult of hatred that he desperately tries to give meaning.

While the rest of the Christmas adventurers remain at liberty, the film paints their lives in the dabbed colors and an absent culture of a dead soul-punch jackets, unprocessed office offices and pictures with bad craft America. In contrast, in their own home, Bob and Villa are surrounded by signs of life, seemingly in peace despite the knowledge that violence can come again.

The projection and conversation attended by /film by Newoufor Reagal Union Square, Paul Thomas Anderson Members of the cast "One battle after another" also discussed the prevailing images, messages and ideas of the film. While the director himself moved away from the attachment of any prevailing morality to the film, DiCaprio shared his view that "there is an incentive to be good at one another" in the heart of the film, "helping each other in the most difficult and most of the times", pointing to Sensei. Carlos. The actor also discussed the Christmas adventurous club - the idea that, although absurd and grotesque, feels "tactile" and "so realistic".

From Anderson's point of view, the goal was to maintain the story focused on a very personal, relevant, emotional way, to the end, rather than the top of the topic of hammered home to the last moments. "You can't try to wrap your hands around the world," the writer/director said. "There is a real heroic story of Bob, but not on camera. These are the first years of breeding this kid, but then at some point, she is hostage to this situation."

Through this lenses, the last season of the villa enters its power and is actively engaged in justice practice in its own terms is the ultimate victory. Regardless of the mistakes that Bob and Perfidia may have done in their own turns, they built a trail forward for the next generation, even when fully struggling to fully understand it.