Troubled people make interesting characters. To look at the conflicts that trouble us all so deeply is to create a story that engages an audience on a psychological level. As humans, we want to see what is raw and vulnerable about people even if we're aware that the characters we're sympathising with are not wholly good people. To ease the insecurity that I am strange, I need to be shown that other people are also as fucked up as I believe I am. From a surface perspective, Magnolia (1999) portrays a series of objectionable characters doing things that many people would find unforgivable. Source: JoBlo I feel like I will struggle to describe this movie fully to anyone mainly because there is not one single plot going on. The events of the film are all occur over the course of a single night with different characters experiencing different troubles. For example, Claudia's story revolves around her relationship with her estranged father, her drug problem and the police office