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- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekWarren OatesAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.Violent poetry
It's hard to believe this is Malick's directorial debut. The movie is slow-paced, so a modern audience accustomed to today's blockbusters might find it boring, but real lovers of the seventh art will enjoy a story well-written and even better-shot. The camera and directing are great, and music perfectly follows. Although story is similar to "Bonnie and Clyde" or "Natural Born Killers", this isn't crime action movie. There's no suspension and excitement, violence isn't shocking and movie won't make you root for or against its characters. Bloody trail that a young couple leaves behind seems somehow natural and casual, while the emphasis is on their personalities, mutual relationship and their views on life. I'm not a fan of Martin Sheen, although I have no objections, but Holly, which is only the second role of Sissy Spacek, stands side by side with legendary Carrie. Still, I would not agree with the view that this is one of the best movies of all time. Great it is, but I'm not amazed.
8/10 - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsChristian BaleCate BlanchettNatalie PortmanA writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas have to offer, undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women.I could write a novel about this film. For quite some time I was thinking how to write short review and not miss the essence. Mass bashing of this movie does not speak so much about its quality as it speaks about today's audience. World got faster, people have no time, they're impatient and nervous, and even worse, they're addicted to adrenaline injections served by modern big and home screens. Unfortunately, this movie is not for everyone. It's not for most of people. But if you are willing to relax, open yourselves emotionally and let the moment carry you, this film could be enriching experience. They say it's pretentious, boring and has no story. True, it's not perfect, it has pretentious and even boring moments and it is very tiring watch if you are not capable to let go. Fact that it does not have plot doers not mean it has no story. It has story, and what a story it has, it just does not tell it in conventional ways. It tells the story by picture and sound and emotion. Every cadre is like a postcard, every sound contributes to artistic photography. This is one of those movies that are not supposed to be analyzed, but felt. I never saw any Terrence Malick movies till now, and if this one really is his worst then I definitely must watch all the rest.
8,5/10
P.S. For those incapable to enjoy artistic movie, if nothing else, two hours of Christian Bale surrounded with many gorgeous women should be enough reason to at least try.- Hungry. Longing for something without knowing what it is.
- Treat this world as it deserves. There are no principles... just circumstances.
- You think when you reach certain age things will start making sense. Then you find out you're as lost as you were before. I suppose that's what damnation is. The pieces of your life never to come together. Just splashed out there.
- So much I was given. So much I left behind.
- Real life's so hard to find. Where it is? How do you get there?
- Pay attention to this moment. And everything is there... perfect and complete just as it is.
- There's so much love inside us that never gets out.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBrad PittSean PennJessica ChastainThe story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings."2001: A Space Odyssey" meets National Geographic family drama
Superb photography and directing string beautiful breathtaking scenes, accompanied by excellent sound. But the atmosphere, which irresistibly reminds me of Kubrick's "Odyssey", no matter how powerful it is, is not enough to keep my attention for two and a half hours, if there is no story that would complement. I guess many have written entire quasi-philosophical essays on the symbolism and meanings of this film. Some are probably right for the most part. I'm not going to get into that. Technically, the film deserves a maximum rating. Essentially, the film is bullshit, Malick's divine art-masturbation. Beautiful, but pointless and unspeakably boring.
Technically - 10/10
Overall impression - 3/10