Enjoyed watching this film, very much. Not one of Terence Malik's best. Personally I'd suggest The New World is his best followed closely by The Tree of Life. This film is still extremely good on so many levels. I guess the reason I didn't give it 10 is because the point of the story is a little hard to understand or 'get'. This isn't always a bad thing for me, in that with what I consider a good piece of film entertainment, if I don't quite 'get it', it usually follows with a 'I need to watch it again', and a few times. What could possibly be better than sitting down to watch a film over and over and over again, years apart? I've been watching my favourite Malik's over and over - and over many years. It's fun. It's enjoyable. Very much the same for a great many other great films and great film makers. I find it curious to consider a 'line' in this film where the Charles Dance character questions the Lotte Verbeek character, during a strained dinner party, over which he questions why she spends her time studying some obscure past instead of using her talents to live and work in the now and the future. The answer of course, here, is because one cannot understand the now or have any idea of the right future without understanding the past and all the tangential discourses along similar lines. Perfect. Different people like different genres of films but criticising one genre because it's not the type you like is not at all correct! Talking of which, 'context is everything'. Worth considering with regard to everything. Otherwise an opinion is utterly pointless. Talking of which, I am amused on my IMDB ... thing ... that under the title of 'similar titles you might like' (or whatever it is), the crazy machine shows a whole load of titles that are not at all similar ... in any way, that I can discern. It would appear that for AI and/or IT algorithms, 'context is irrelevant. Oh well. "What a marvellous modern world we live in". Was this review helpful? Probably not.
