‘Master Gardener’: Paul Schrader caps off informal trilogy with story of a repressed gardener with a shady past — and toys with hot-button issues he’s not willing to deal with
None of that stops Norma from dining with him and having sex — possibly consensual, definitely a power move on her part — with her blandly handsome worker once a week. Nor does it keep her from asking him for a huge favor: Her grandniece Maya is in some trouble, and she needs to help this young woman course-correct. She wants Narvel to teach her how to maintain the garden and green up her thumb. Make her your apprentice, the boss tells him. It’ll give her structure.
Schrader knows he’s playing with dynamite here, throwing hate groups and age-discrepancy romances and hints of class warfare into this tale of a tightly-wound man coming undone. He’s also reluctant to light the fuse on these hot-button issues, which keepsfrom edging into exploitation territory yet makes you feel that he’s not interested in really exploring any sociopolitical aspects at all. They’re just there to make the stakes higher, to up the ante on this particular antihero’s journey.
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