Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "The Master (2012) is Paul Thomas Anderson at his most hypnotic, a film built around power, need, and the fragile bargain between a leader and a lost man. Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell as a volatile drifter whose life runs on impulse and pain, until he collides with Lancaster Dodd, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s charismatic founder of a new belief system. Anderson stages their relationship like a duel wrapped in affection. Dodd offers structure, language, and pur