I would just like to proclaim that the first hour of Boogie Nights is fucking fantastic. The thrill, the dance, the sounds, the lights; the idea behind the whole thing, the tracking shots, how Anderson dances us in with the swooping camerawork set to a disco soundtrack, how Anderson playfully juggles absurdity and poignancy, humanity and humor; the energetic brilliance of a young and fresh Mark Wahlberg; gorgeous character-performances by Don Cheadle, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy...... Technique, concept, vision, energy and spirit all fuse together in Anderson's ingenious 60 minutes of first-class filmmaking.
This hour is one of the most extraordinary I have ever seen in contemporary film. It's not perfect, but that doesn't matter, because it's something else: it's fucking fantastic.
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