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A conversation with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson about his film "Boogie Nights", which chronicles the gritty adult entertainment industry in the 1970s.
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Chris 08/10/2008 03:46 AM Report
God Boogie Nights is great. That scene towards the end with Alfred Molina stands alone in my mind in all of cinema. It's almost ridiculous. It builds suspense with a guy blowing up fireworks. There's nothing clever about that. And yet, the scene is so real that it makes me cry, due to the dead look on Wahlberg's face as he sits where he will probably die. Dirk is a child. He has thrown what success he hasn't earned down the toilet and he cannot take care of himself. The audience now must sit and watch a child, absolutely lost and in such a dangerous situation. Danger inhabits the house. The young man with fireworks to his right, the man checking their supply in the back, and a coked out maniac right in front of him. Wow. Never for me has a so humored me with its bombastic absurdity and frightened me with its sense of danger.