An excellent film, particularly with Aimee Mann’s singing. The film involves a series of encounters, many by chance, which have the effect of changing a character’s life. In this sense the film is based upon Carl Jung’s theory of “Synchronicity” which he defined as “acausal coincidences” or “meaningful coincidences. Often they are about a connection between a person’s inner and outer life and for example when elements in a dream are reflected in some real event on the following day. Of course coincidences occur all the time but for them to be real synchronicities they must embrace the numinous. They have also been seen as “markers in time”: at times we tend to be trapped by the past but a synchronicity can free us to move into the future. Synchronicities have also been considered as meeting points – the encounter with another person, for example, which acts to open a door into our lives. The meetings in Magnolia are clear such types of encounters that act to transform a life.
The theme of meetings is also at the heart of such films as Closer and Crash. Maybe you have other examples?
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