Beautiful tale of two cultures meeting

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2009)

The place is Virginia, the year is 1607.Three ships of the Jamestown Expedition,led by Captain Newport,arrive and the Native Americans are witnessing this.When two cultures meet it means bloody battles.The English men build a fort there.John Smith leaves the fort to explore another area and trade with the Indians, but he gets captured.But it is princess Pocahontas that saves John Smith's life.Captain Smith and Pocahontas find romance with each other.Once he is released he becomes the leader in the fort.People live in terrible conditions there, they don't have much to eat, there are diseases, people are dying...The whole situation seems pretty hopeless.And there is another battle to be expected with the Indians, who see that the English will not leave their country.Also Smith loses the trust of their men, when he disagrees with them trading Pocahontas and lodging her in the fort to protect their families.Then Captain Newport returns from England and informs Smith that the king has offered him the opportunity to lead a new expedition of his own to find a new passage to the West Indies.Smith returns to England instead and asks his friend to tell Pocahontas that he has died in the crossing.All the beauty of Pocahontas' life is now gone.Then John Rolfe, a tobacco planter arrives and wants Pocahontas.He marries her, after she's baptised, but she still has a place in her heart that belongs to John Smith.Terrence Malick is the writer and director of The New World (2005).This is a very poetic movie.Malick has portrayed beautifully the story of these people.Especially those moments between Smith and Pocahontas, but you can find some beauty in the battle scenes, also.And he has done an excellent job capturing the era on screen.There's nothing to remind of our times there.It's almost like watching a documentary on how these people lived.There are some outstanding performances in the movie.Colin Farrell does a role of the lifetime as John Smith.Q'orianka Kilcher is very sensuous in her part as Pocahontas.I think we'll be hearing from her in the future.Christopher Plummer gives another fine performance as Captain Newport.Christopher Bale is great as John Rolfe.Wes Studi does a good job playing Openhancanough.Ben Chaplin plays Robinson and John Savage is Savage.The love story portrayed in this movie is beautiful.Watch this piece of art and step back to the 17th century.