{"id":576224,"date":"2023-05-27T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-master-gardener-take-one-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:05:53","slug":"watch-master-gardener-take-one-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-master-gardener-take-one-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch  Master Gardener | TAKE ONE | and Film Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4141bf46567\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4141bf46567\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-master-gardener-take-one-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CMaster_Gardener_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Master Gardener | TAKE ONE | Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMaster_Gardener_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Master Gardener | TAKE ONE | Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n        <strong>MASTER GARDENER is unlikely to go down as one of Paul Schrader\u2019s most accomplished works, but the strange rhythm of the film is oddly captivating. Even if the film\u2019s characters and interactions feel rigid, the whole is still intriguing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joel Edgerton leads as Narvel Roth, the meticulous and accomplished head gardener of the estate of Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). Narvel harbours a violent past (confirmed with a nightmarishly shot Neo-nazi tattoo reveal) and has a strangely subservient sexual relationship with Norma. When Norma instructs him to take on her troubled grand-niece, Maya (Quintessa Swindell), as an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rentice, the delicate equilibrium of the situation is upset.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, the characters\u2019 dialogue has an oddly stilted quality. It is an oddity that the most naturally flowing verbiage is when Edgerton narrates Narvel\u2019s journal entries (shot with him at a desk, a clear recall of THE CARD COUNTER and FIRST REFORMED) or snippets of gardening history. This formality of interaction keeps the audience somewhat at arm\u2019s length and puts Weaver\u2019s Norma, in particular, adrift from time and place.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the entire estate, especially the grand main house, has an off-kilter pseudo-Antebellum feel: dark-stained wood, elaborate curtains, classical furniture, and shaded balconies. Only a repeatedly prominently framed jellyfish wallpaper indicates otherwise. With different costuming, a still frame could easily place the film decades earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026the entire estate, especially the grand main house, has an off-kilter pseudo-Antebellum feel: dark-stained wood, elaborate curtains, classical furniture, and shaded balconies. Only a repeatedly prominently framed jellyfish wallpaper indicates otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Only Maya\u2019s appearance \u2013 in a bright t-shirt screaming \u2018No Bad Vibes\u2019, listening to modern music \u2013 jolts this weird bubble to the decidedly contemporary. The burgeoning connection between her (described as \u201cmixed blood\u201d by her great aunt Norma) and Narvel \u2013 both as an academic mentor and beyond \u2013 is fraught with explicit and hidden tensions, with Schrader\u2019s script taking its time to develop the relationship. Swindell\u2019s performance here is excellent, balancing the need to begin as a more guarded version of Maya with the more expressive role of the two leads. <\/p>\n<p>The film is heavy with metaphors of cultivation, growth, and protecting the shoots of promise. Narvel himself has been plucked from poisonous earth and nurtured by Norma, albeit there is the hovering question of whether Norma is also constricting the man she insists upon calling \u2018sweet pea\u2019. Narvel\u2019s hate-filled past is examined by comparing the \u2018seeds of hate\u2019 with the \u2018seeds of love\u2019; it\u2019s no coincidence that Narvel\u2019s internal monologue on a black aphid problem describes the need \u201cto stop the outbreak in its tracks\u201d right after Maya is beaten up by her drug-dealing boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The inevitable lurch towards violence is arresting, but the film doesn\u2019t flow as well as the story requires. Scenes and sequences shift abruptly, and whilst this reflects the jarring intrusion of Narvel\u2019s past on his present, it doesn\u2019t necessarily help illustrate the organic growth of the relationship with Maya. Even so, Schrader emphasises the rigid structures of Narvel\u2019s life with the camera work, which is equally exacting and establishes a rhythm for viewers to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Thematically, what MASTER GARDENER espouses \u2013 if anything \u2013 about redemption is an open question. On a surface level, it would appear Narvel benefits from a redemptive arc (which can seem unpalatable given his implied abhorrent transgressions), with his guilt apparent but subtle in Edgerton\u2019s performance. However, seeing the calm demeanour shift to one laced with seething malice when threatening someone with garden shears would imply that a caged element of his former self remains. For the most part, Schrader seems uninterested in the backstory beyond the surface-level abhorrence it generates as a narrative pressure point. If anything, the film is more interested in probing the tension between those cultivation metaphors and the hate-filled imagery on Narvel\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThematically, what MASTER GARDENER espouses \u2013 if anything \u2013 about redemption is an open question. [\u2026] If anything, the film is more interested in probing the tension between those cultivation metaphors and the hate-filled imagery on Narvel\u2019s body.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although there are clear resonances here with FIRST REFORMED and, in particular, THE CARD COUNTER, MASTER GARDENER subverts their themes in a significant way. Rather than having ostensibly good men worn down by the moral ineptitude they come to find in their trusted institutions (religion, the military), Narvel is presented as beginning as morally bankrupt and only finding a moral compass via the structure of both Norma\u2019s estate and the witness protection program. As he starts to move away from both, for different reasons but the same motivating factor \u2013 Maya \u2013 the question is whether he can maintain this improved moral outlook without these structures and his own carefully crafted environment. <\/p>\n<p>MASTER GARDENER seems more of a question-posing film than a repudiation of morally hypocritical institutions. As a result, it may seem less impactful and more meandering than Schrader\u2019s other recent work. 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