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Dec 17, 2023
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Before I get to my complicated thoughts and feelings about Paul Thomas Anderson as a filmmaker, it strikes me that I might need to spend a little time talking about the genre known as “the shaggy dog story”.

A shaggy dog story is a comic yarn that mines a lot of its humor from the form itself: an overly long, overly complex, minutely detailed story that …

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