Magnolia Director/Writer Paul Thomas Anderson on raining Frogs
You get to a point in your life, and shit is just happening, everything’s out of your control, and suddenly, a rain of frogs just makes sense.
You’re staring at a doctor who’s telling you something is wrong, and while we know what it is, we have no way of fixing it. And you just go, so what you’re telling me, basically, is that it’s raining frogs.
I guess I just found myself at a point where I was going through some shitty stuff and I was ready for some sort of weird religious experience, or as close as I could get to one.
So then I began to decipher things about frogs and history, things like as far back as the Romans, people have been able to judge the health of a society by the health of its frogs. The health of a frog, the vibe, the texture, its looks, how wet it is, everything. The frogs are a barometer for who we are as people.
We’re polluting ourselves, we’re killing ourselves, and the frogs are telling us so, because they are all getting sick and deformed.
