pure poetry

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2006)

T. Malick's movies aren't for your run of the mill movie-goer. His transcendental influences are across every movie he has made, and the secret to his movies are that he is not simply telling the story of soldiers in WW2, or of Pocohontas and her people, but he is telling the story of God and Nature, and our fight within. I love the fact that he is willing to make the movies that need to be made. It's the stories that he creates and the poetry he places in front of us that reminds us why we go to the movies. He certainly is not your mainstream director, but when you see the list of actors flock to be in his movies you understand the amount of respect fellow artists have for his work, and that certainly may be the greatest compliment of all. His work is as legitimate as it was in the 70's as it will be as long as we appreciate the arts.