About
The Master

As a portrait of two characters who are both trying to accomplish the same thing—to overcome their animal and narrower selves by finding "something that's true"—the different paths that their respective manias require them to take is at times startling (egomania vs. drink + sex). Also a concrete sense of post-WWII rootlessness, people not knowing what to latch onto or strive for. Hoffman's character attempts to