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The Meaning of Magnolia

There has been much debate over the title of the film & PTA has said repeatedly that it should be left up to your interpretation (along with the Frog Sequence & many other elements of the film). There are many Magnolia flowers (or paintings) scattered throughout the film. Here are Paul's comments on this topic:

"I always had the title of Magnolia in my head even before I wrote it," says Anderson. And the a couple of weird things stared to happen that verified the title for me. I did some research on the Magnolia flower. There's a concept that if you eat the bark from the Magnolia tree it can help cure cancer.

"There's no reference to it in the film," Anderson says in an interview with the online entertainment website, Mr. Showbiz.

"It's many different things: It's a street in the Valley. It's a flower."

Perhaps more tellingly, most of the women in the film have flower names, like Lily and Rose, but Anderson told Mr. Showbiz that if any of the characters represents "Magnolia," it is Claudia, the coke-fried basket case movingly portrayed by Melora Walters.

A key phrase that gets repeated throughout the film -- "we may be through with the past, but the past isn't through with us" -- is at the heart of the film's meaning, Anderson told Mr. Showbiz.

Q: Did the title come to you early along?

A: Yeah, but at the time, I couldn't say exactly why. Yes, Magnolia is a street in the valley, and I knew something was going to happen in an intersection in the valley, but it was still not totally clear why that was going to be the title. And it wasn't until the last two weeks of the writing that certain validations for the title really started coming. One of them was the discovery of this thing called the Magonia, which is this mythical place above the firmament where shit goes and hangs out before it falls from the sky. I think I'd come to it through Charles Fort, who wrote about strange phenomena like rains of frogs and Greenbury Hill. The Magonia is this place where, when ships disappear from the ocean, that's where they go, and only later will an anchor from it fall from the sky.

http://www.ptanderson.com/featurefi...lia/secrets.htm