The master is a stunning movie, very beautifully crafted, directed with pitch perfect tone, and featuring great performances by Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adam's. It's an interesting story, a somewhat fictionalized version of a biography of L. Ron Hubbard and the foundation of Scientology. However, knowing as much about scientology as I know it was a slightly difficult film to sit through, being aware that it was about one of the greatest frauds and one of the greatest depictions of a fake master ever filmed. L. Ron Hubbard was a super freak who was actually a minor sci-fi writer, and Dianetics is basically one big sci-fi hoax.
My heart goes out to the millions of people who have been duped by this organization and this movie does a fairly good job of portraying the absolute ridiculousness of the entire teaching. Too bad they did not fast forward to the leadership under the gangster Miscavige. That would have been a hoot.
My heart goes out to the millions of people who have been duped by this organization and this movie does a fairly good job of portraying the absolute ridiculousness of the entire teaching. Too bad they did not fast forward to the leadership under the gangster Miscavige. That would have been a hoot.