It's no great surprise that a new film from Paul Thomas Anderson would be met with positive reviews – but even by his own standards, the writer/director's latest effort One Battle After Another has been lavished with quite extraordinary praise.
The film follows DiCaprio's washed-up single father Bob Ferguson 16 years after his days as a fiery revolutionary, as he's drawn back into a now unfamiliar world to protect his teenage daughter from his old nemesis.
View oEmbed on the source websiteAnd while the story is fictional – loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland – he revealed that the revolutionary group known in the film as the French 75 do have real world inspirations.
"[They were] multicultural people that then had to sort of scatter like rats around the country and try to assimilate themselves and disappear into everyday society, but at a time and a place they were willing to risk their life for their ideology and belief system."
"So you have this guy that's trying to raise a daughter, that's trying to live off the grid, that's trying to not be online, and trying to relate to the next generation – a young girl that he's trying to protect and isn't the best father [to] – and all of a sudden he's at home alone, stoned, and his past comes back to haunt him," he says.
"He's got his daughter's karate teacher, and there's helicopters flying above his small town, and they're up against all odds and forces that they can't fight against. They're great, flawed anti heroes that I think were just brilliantly written.”
Taylor gives a remarkable performance as the fiesty, unpredictable revolutionary, and she also turned to some real historical figures when she was working out how to get under the skin of the character.
"So I was just like, 'Oh, this is really dope.' And I know exactly where I want to go and what direction I want to go in for Perfidia."
"Especially as a black woman, we are forced to be strong," she says. "And you see that strength in Perfidia. You also see Perfidia in survival mode, and I've been in a place of having to be in survival mode at a point in my life, you know.
Anderson might have looked to the past to help inspire some of his revolutionary characters, but – deliberately or not – the film also has clear parallels to very modern-day concerns, both in the USA but also more widely.
"Paul started writing this movie 20 years ago, so I don't think that it was necessarily connected to the political relevancies of today," star Regina Hall says of those similarities to current events. "But boy does it coincide!"
"Especially considering the fact this script has been written 20 years ago. But I definitely think that this movie will create a lot of healthy dialogue and much needed conversations that need to be had."
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