The cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson and the music that accompanies it intertwine into a single nerve thread - from anxious orchestral scores to fragile songs about growing up. The lecture examines how the director hears his characters, feels their pauses, and why the soundtrack becomes an extension of the inner monologue. Paul Thomas Anderson's films often seem chaotic and sprawling, but behind this disorder lies a rare attentiveness to human weaknesses. The director looks at his heroes without condescension and without the desire to justify, capturing moments of confusion, sharp bursts of anger, or sudden tenderness. His characters may err, cause pain, destroy their lives, but in every gesture there is a sense of authenticity that makes it hard to look away from the screen. At the meeting, film critic Mikhail Vitushko and musicologist Timofey Chaplyuk offer to look at familiar films through their sound. The conversation will focus on how the director's language changes from crime drama to almost chamber novellas, and how music helps to bring this fragmented world together. It will be interesting for those who have already rewatched their favorite films and for those who are just about to get acquainted with this director.