Long live the revolution! This article contains Large spoilers for "one battle after the other".

There may be just something in the air these days, but 2025 was an incredible year for the villains of the film. Some have taken over the supernatural route, led by Jackec O'Connell, Remik and his cheerful band of Irish followers of Jig-dancing in Ryan Kogller's "sinners", "Clownness like Witch Gladis" (Amy Madigan) in "Children's" Ritts. " On the side of the comic of things, Lex Luther of Nicolas Hult and Ralph Ineson's galacutus dominated the big screen (though they would calmly suggest that Louis Pulman's Sentir/The Thunderbalc*gap defeated everyone). Elsewhere, multiplexes were overcome by serial killers ("dangerous animals"), zombies ("28 years later"), and even artificial intelligence running Amok ("Mission: Impossible - the last calculation").

Whether the real -life product enters a fiction or simply a miracle of timing, only the last few months have given us a stable string of antagonists to all timer ... but "but"One battle after another"Perhaps he has just delivered the best yet. Capturing, of course, is that he is by far the most glorious" normal "one of them. The form of time, in the form of time of time of past years, in the form of time of time, in connection with wearing, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in form of time, in form of time, in form of time, in form of time, in form of time, in form of time, in form of time, in form of time, Time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time, in the form of time of time.

On the surface, the dead -eye lock is just ... guy. However, beneath him, disturbing psychology and hypocritical motivations that lead every action turn it into the ruthless power of nature. From his attractive need to join the White Surreal Front (absurdly calling himself a "Christmas adventurous club") to his dehumanizing lust of the reckless struggle for freedom of Tejana Taylor, Perfidia, Beverly Hills, to his one -powered mission and hunting for his own. Real Bad guys in recent memory.

You don't have to hand it over to John Penn, To paraphrase a well -known memeBut maybe we can make an exception for "one battle after another". Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson did not climb to such a high level of recognition for no reasonAnd his unusual casting eye plays a big role in his success. His latest film has earned titles like his first collaboration with Starvala Leonardo DiCaprio, while Chase Infiniti is everything, but guaranteed to impose Buz awards after her breakthrough, the stage of the scene here. However, Penn's order as Lokjav that provides the fuel to this incredibly well -placed machine. There is no denying that he had the talented (though controversial) actor his fair share in local roles over decades. However, few can be compared to what he pulls here as a frightening lock.

Pen has always had a talent for lumps, without nonsense archetypes, but it hard even scratches the surface of how many layers inserts Lokjav without the whole story. His introductory scene is just an unforgettable and most appropriate amount of everything he stands for, as Perfidia smeared a violent trail through the immigrant detention center and comes face to face with the competent man. A bizarre, psychological chess competition appears in which both the revolutionary and military man are trying to power the other, starting sexually filled waste that could have sunk the face before he even has a chance to make further influence. But with Anderson carefully modulating the tone of this scene and Penn to understand exactly how far the envelope is to push, this open battle of Witts builds a strong foundation that the rest of the script has used the full advantage of moving forward.

From that point, each successive look of Lokjav practically drip with threat and probability. We totally buy his psychosexual obsession with perfidia in the past - original fetish found in many - Just as much as we understand the racial animus and the deep uncertainty it drives in the present. It could have been easy for Pen to turn this villain into a total cartoon. Fortunately, he stops just a little from that line and instead finds the perverted sense of mankind in the heart of the character who, in reality, is simply desperate for approval by the worst people around.

This may sound strange to a movie (loosely) based on the novel "Vinland" by writer Thomas Pinchon, but some film movements may be pulled out by wondering why Paul Thomas Anderson has decided to focus on the individual as unusual and unusual as a narrative. Theoretically, the director could have changed the whole character as he thought it was appropriate and come up with any number of personal quiets and behavioral characteristics to achieve a similar emotional effect on the audience. Why risk to alienate viewers with someone so Specifically Off-acting like this one, who first encountered a sporting erection, after being caught on a rifle before getting involved in even more populous activities?

Maybe that had everything that was with the politics inflicted in "one battle after another". This is, after all, a film showing revolutionaries trying to disrupt the government through any necessary means, immigrants closed behind cages, riots stimulated and exacerbated by agents wearing state masks, and literal white supplementalists who hide in ordinary sight. In that light, how can the main antagonist be something other than what it is - merge of seemingly every toxic, prejudic and privileged way of thinking in bottles in a white male? It is no coincidence that his anger is directed at the young villa, caught between the legacy left by her mother Perfidia (as perverse and misinterpreted as she could be by the sad Bob) and the undiscovered manipulary of her biological father Lokjav. If the various discussions of the contemporary members of the Klux Clan did not appear clearly enough, the whole last act becomes a literal chase for the country's version to survive: the one who dictates the fascists, or a renamed revolutionaries.

Many will remember Lockjav's tense clash with a villa in the monastery, waiting for the results of her paternity test like a tiger walking behind bars. Others will point to his perverted dynamics with perfidious, after that rats to her friends, offering flowers before breaking the locked door with a tight ram. But the final backlog of Lokjav, slacked to death and wrapped in a body bag, grossly depicted, but eventually killed by his own compatriots after (seemingly) securing everything he wanted, is a final, fitting irony for the most memorable villain of the year.

"One battle after another" now plays in cinemas.