I would close with the past. But it's the past that doesn't want to close with me.
(not mine, but true)
What I like of Magnolia, is that, along by time, i find it always a small masterpiece.
From citations so precise and ironic, to the thin, stumbling pain of the protagonists, to the suffering, till to the soundtrack. The sound. That motif that's on all the movie. I like it.