Understanding the Films of Terrence Malick
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Video essay analysis on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and the cinema of Terrence Malick.
Other episodes in the Filmmaker Philosophies series:
Akira Kurosawa - • The Humanistic Cinema ...
Andrei Tarkovsky - • Praying Through Cinema...
Werner Herzog - • The Inner Chronicle of...
Sources:
Martin Heidegger - Being and Time: amzn.to/30MA7uN
Martin Woessner - What is Heideggerian Cinema? Film, Philosophy and Cultural Mobility.
Martin Woessner - Cosmic Cinema: On the Philosophical Films of Terrence Malick
Stanley Cavell - The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film: amzn.to/2zwSBEj
Robert Kolker - A Cinema of Loneliness: amzn.to/2Y0tpzm
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Terrence Malick is the third director in my filmmaker philosophy series (following Werner Herzog and Andrei Tarkovsky), which filmmaker should I cover next? Let me know below!
PT Anderson
Kubrick maybe? Or my personal favorite Mr. Welles.
Go for Kubrick, Bergman, Kurosawa or Woody Allen Btw you are one of the best film channels out there 😁
Yes! Really looking forward to watch this. :)
I will love to see your take on Kubrick.
Sometimes, when life becomes too much to bear, I watch 'The Tree of Life' and I feel a little better
Fits the title. Doesn't it?
Under the benevolent shade of _The Tree of Life_ my weary, parched soul draws much needed aliment.
it does the opposite to me for some reason
Me too
"If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. A glance from your eyes... and my life will be yours." Thank you Terrence Malick, Thank you @Like Stories of Old.
To me, you're a lighthouse. Through your videos I discovered the works of Carl Jung, of Heidegger, of Malick, and many others. It seems incredible to me that someone whom I've never met had such a profound influence in my life. I am forever grateful to you, my teacher. I hope someday we meet. Cheers.
I think I remember you from The School of Life comments section :)
@@theresecibaka6878 the begging stations of most people interested in philosophy
You should check out a couple of lecture series from The Great Courses called “The Great Ideas of Philosophy” and “The Great Ideas of Western Civilization”. I think you’d love them. Happy learning, fellow autodidact!
man crush
I thought i was one of few who notates all the books and movies mentioned in LSOO to expand knowledge. Glad there's others
I don't know if you or anyone will read this, but this video inspired me to read through Being and Time, a book that fundamentally transformed my life for the better during the dark year of 2020. Thank you so profusely for that.
I'm actually learning German in order to read Being and Time, may I ask how the book changed you and how you were even able to get through it?
Malick's art is pure poetry. It saved my soul so many times.
I think this is very interesting. It is important not to forget Malick's deeply Christian themes, that invite us, not to accept our demise and nihilism, but to persist in our search for the eternal, the true and the beautiful.
Amen! As a philosophy major and christian it is so refreshing to have at least one filmmaker who's work is relatable.
For me, his great and most unique structure is the story of heaven touching earth, being felt by the characters, and then that heaven being driven away by the sin of the world, the characters then carrying that touching of heaven in their memory and hearts, and that lost heaven pointing their heart's way to a greater heaven. His characters live in Eden for a time and love it fully, and then are driven out, and thereafter they seek after God, and struggle to make an Eden out of the fallen world, which they often do through love, devotion to the truth, and self sacrifice. This structure is strongest to me in The Thin Red Line and in A Hidden Life, and it's perhaps unfair to call it a Christian structure, as he points to the structure that the Christian symbols and stories also describe, a truth of human living bigger and deeper than any account of it.
If Jesus really wanted to save the world, he failed to do so.
Hellebrok Jesus is God. Look at the crucifix, God hold nothing back from you.
@@vladimirsolovyov666 as the words to the song say, 'its not over, not over, not over yet.' x
I rarely comment on videos, but this time I have to. This channel feels like home to me. I listen to your words and feel at peace. Thank you for doing such a consistently great job.
Oh well said, I feel the same thing. Mysterious....
Absolutely
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way. I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you. Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
I came here to say exactly the same thing. The analyses are always thought provoking and calming at the same time. I savor every video for moments when I can take in every bit of the pieces of art you create. Every time I feel like I am aimlessly wondering this Earth, one of your videos is sure to remind me who I am and what I care for. Thank you very much for the content. I'm sure it takes a lot of research, time, effort and heart to make and I appreciate it greatly.
I liked this very much, Many thanks! The only part Malick mistook was to place the 3rd Reich German as an evil machine. This mistake is common among many intellectuals, as they themselves were educated on a sea of historical information, many truthful but many also also distorted by heavy heavy bias. At the present we have a completely wrong reading of the recent wars, as the winner has consecutively written the history. For a philosopher to write within the context of the official history, at least the recent one, many folds of cautions should be taken, and a thorough sceptical revision work be done before state or refer to it.
The multilayered richness of your scripts, followed by the fluent and subtle, yet highly complex editing, is a cocktail of skills, one can`t get enough of. Thanks.
He's one of a kind
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way. I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you. Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
PossibleCinema This fellow is extraordinary gifted. I never get enough.
Every one of your videos I feel in the pit of my stomach. After Finishing everything around me seems covered in a golden hue. Finishing your videos doesn’t make me want to watch more it makes me want to turn my phone off and take deep breaths. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos, a source of wonder.
A friendly reminder: Turn your phone off!
There very few pieces of art that made such an impact on me as "the thin red line". It moved me in so many levels bypassing the conscious mind. I cried and laughed but most of all. it instilled in me a deep silence which resonated long after the film ended.
Agreed. It just blew me away.
The only movie that makes me cry with every watch
Malick's films feel like a distillation of a particular moment if you had perfect awareness of everything around you. At least, that's how they feel to me. You never disappoint, LSOO.
100%
To me, Malick's films are the closest thing to experiencing a dream while conscious and awake.
Your essays are my meditations bro
Same for me
What a line! What a fuckin' line! Wish I had said that.
Another jewel in a catalogue of brilliance. Your earlier forays into Malick are stunning but you, again have taken his work to an even greater level of luminosity & have captured the nuanced genius of his work. When many criticize his work for pretension & self indulgence, you have shown the complexity & humanity amidst his wonder of the natural world. Thank you, LSOO for what you gift us with . You always bring a pang to my heart & more than a tear or two. But you always manage to spark hope. That is what I take away from every video you post. Thank you for helping us to remember what truly matters.♥️
with a tear in my eye, I must say I couldn't have said it better myself.
This is literally some of the best content in existence. Almost as defining as the films and lessons you are teaching. Speechless. So beautiful.
I've come back to this video over the years, watching it over and over again, showing it to friends, relishing in it. For me, this - not Heidegger, not Malick, but your video - is one of the most important exploratory works of art to communicate the meaning of life. Thank you
This video gets at the heart of why I love the films of Terrence Malick; for me how deeply they speak to me. Their importance lies in the fact that they are contrary to every trend in society. In our worldly madness, how urgently we all need to be reminded "Know thyself". Seek yourself, in that is all Creation. Awaken. Thank you for the substance of your analysis, and thank you Terrence Malick for the substance of your films, and their authentic, almost painful beauty.
I woke up this morning feeling like I had to watch The Tree of Life again, almost like Terry had something to teach me, or there was something I needed to know about his works. Then I found you had uploaded this :) So very timely. Beautiful analyses as always.
A very relevant film for the current times.
Watching a terrence malick movie is like going to an esoteric fair
No, it's like going on the Tilt-A-Whirl ride at the amuesment park.
Esotericists have fairs?????
Odi et Amo they do and it’s as funny and as scary as you probably imagine
@@demiiiii in London? I'm intrigued
The Thin Red Line is one of the best films ever created , sadly i rarely ever run across anyone who has ever seen it or has any appreciation for it =/ ; thank you LSOO, finding your videos has been one of the singular joys of my life
@John wayne and the one he chose as #1 was from 1989, so that's a well deserved win for Thin Red Line in my book! kzhead.info/sun/jNeOnZiagXOKlWw/bejne.html
I think the same about The Thin Red Line.
CYI3ERPUNK I actually met ben chaplin who was one of the main guys in the movie. Just saying. Met him a few times, actually. 🙏
The shot of the buddha statue among the flames of the burning village towards the end will stay with me forever, i'm sure of it.
@@Llllltryytcc It's the Han Zimmer melanesian choir for me. I'm so grateful Hans did a Thin Red Line piece when I saw him live. The whole thing is just a beautiful piece of art. They don't make films like that any more. 1917, maybe.
Somebody once said that you could pause a Malick film almost at any time and get a perfect desktop wallpaper. Your videos are awesome, man. Thank you so much for making them.
That is 100% true for A Hidden Life, soooo many gorgeous wideshots througout the movie.
@@DaviMartins99 can confirm this for Tree of Life and New World, too :)
You have to watch days of heaven ❤️😍
@@birajsingha9879 ilr, those wavy like the ocean fields of wheat were something.
My friend just said this when I shared them The Tree of Life.
Yes! An unexpected pleasure. A Hidden Life was astounding to me. An analysis of the work of Hirokazu Koreeda would be amazing too.
A hidden life...was the best movie I've seen in a long time....probably the best anti war movie ever made along with a thin red line...but will never get the recognition it deserves ..but then who cares
I just finished A Hidden Life a few hours ago and I've been in almost a constant state of near tears. Nothing has ever shaken my soul as powerfully as that film did. I am truly just at a complete loss for words. This film is the true powerful of cinema; in the power of the universal language of images and sounds. Nothing can compare to the awe of nature and all her magnificence. This is one of the biggest things I always take away from his films and it's been with me ever since I first saw The Thin Red Line in high school. Malick is as much of a philosophy teacher to me as any of the philosophers we've read in class.
With this video, you've set the benchmark for essay channels. People really appreciate the insane amount of editing that goes into something like this.
As a former Philosophy student, an individual, a person and Malick fan, I love this, thank you.
This is the best channel on KZhead. Every time I watch one of these videos I get the feeling that I have found my people.
Terrence Malick is one of my all-time favorite film directors! I am so happy to see you've made a video on his work! ^_^
The New World introduced me to Terry. He is legitimately one of the best filmmakers of all time
The phrase : " if I never meet you in this life - let me feel the lack", hit me to my core
The thin red line is such a masterpiece, very few movies make me think and feel like Malicks films
Now this is where you truly shine - helping us awaken from the meaning crisis we live in. Thank you for being a meaningful part of my life.
The Tree of Life is one of the most beautiful films ever made. Such a masterpiece! Thank you so much. Love this video!!
just finished my Terrence Malick binge, I must say, this is a phenomenal study of his work. these analyses are concise and derived meanings that I myself had not yet considered. thank you for the essay, it has left me with a greater appreciation for Malick's craft
I cry. Tears of joy of longing of loss of hope. When I listen to, emerge into this voice that provides me with sustenance after days of famine, I cry. Thank You.
Terrance made a cinematic masterpiece in The Thin Red line. The movie’s script and cinematography is both poetic philosophical and breathtaking. And the icing on the top is the hauntingly mesmerising score by Zimmer. No other film he has done before and has done since reached this level of perfection.
Have you seen A Hidden Life yet? It comes reeaaalllyy close. I'm almost inclined to say it's his best movie yet. Coming from someone who hasn't liked Malick's last few films but also The Thin Red Line is top 5 movies all time for me.
"Poured out like water on the ground..." "The whole world is blowing itself apart as fast as man can arrange it, all a man can do is shut his eyes and let nothing touch him
@@sunofpeter2 Love where does it come from, who light this flame in us.. I was a prisoner.. you set me free..
He is trying to make us look at the majesty of life. He is like a dead man remembering life, longing for it.
I crave connection that I wish will provide meaning, I endure anxiety but forget to search for the meaning of it, as if I had accepted life as a burden to carry and death as meaningless. I sometimes think that joining the army might get me back in touch with the world or sever my connection to it completely. Beautiful video. Thank you.
Its just that I'm curious... and its just that you're the source of those answers.
I really loved A Hidden Life. So beautiful and tragic. I think its Mr Malick's best film. Its so sad it was ignored by Oscar. Thanks for sharing Like Stories of Old.
You just continue to do these fantastic, beautiful, insightful, deep videos. I am completely baffled every time I watch one of your videos man. Just beautiful. KZhead has become such a crude, rude, utilitarian place, but you manage to keep the poetry alive here. My favorite video so far was the one on the shawshank redemption, but this one is very close. Keep it up man and many thanks from Croatia.
In der Welt sein - "Being in the world" - a key concept with Heidegger. One thing you didn't cover which is important, and relative is the idea of living authentically vs. inauthentically. this is a critical concept with Heidegger and defines so much of his work. I strongly recommend you read "The Origin of the Work of Art" which i think will directly translate to film, albeit the main example utilized is a painting ("A Pair of Shoes" - Van Gogh). His take on Art will make you never look at things the same way again, and makes it clear in what art "does" to us as humans, and why "great" art stirs us with an undefinable quality. he talks about the relationship we have with the art work, that art both grounds us in our world, and elevates us exposing it's world and that it is this push and pull, where we find "aletheia" - Truth.
17:04 "By operating according to our default state, by going through life without really engaging with the question of the meaning of being, we do not just avoid our own mortality, we also separate ourselves from life itself. We blind ourselves from the beauty, from experiencing things as they are. And this is the tragedy: to one day realize that we’ve been asleep. That we have not seen what was always right in front of us. As such the true destructive force is not death or temporality; it is regret. " Brilliantly said. Regret is the singular fear that we all ought to fear most. Not death, as that is inevitable and thus is futile to resist. But regret is something we each have the power to take action daily so as to live without regrets.
Much like Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' changed the way I empathise through thought, Mallick's movies have changed how I see through my mind's eye. And now you sir, with your video essays, I feel a change in the way I dissect the world before me. Thank you!
Most important filmmaker of our time. The mental health crisis can be attenuated by accepting the seed that Malick seeks to plant in our hearts.
I appreciate your thoughts on this. For me being on the spectrum of autism I always connected to the sensory stimulation, overwhelming beauty of ideas and pictures, also the fleeting ideas and profound thoughts that surface up in a very organic way. So much of life for me is making sense of it. Bringing order to chaos. I think that in Malicks films there is this surrender of whatever experience it is. Right around the corner some magical moment is coming if you just are willing to see, feel, touch it and absorb it into your heart.
This is probably the most profound video essay i have ever seen, as was The tree of life my most profound film-experience i have ever had; not the best, not my favourite, not even the most memorable ( indeed, i do not like at least half of Malick's filmography, and i did not think about the film for years hitherto), but one that affacted my understanding of existence. I have became one who deals with philosophy( i would not dare call myself a philosopher), at least partially because of that picture, therefore it will always have a special place in my hearth. Thank you for the video. I only wish you could have mentioned Kirkegaard who is most famous for his understanding of anxiety and undoubtedly influenced Heidegger. Keep up the good work. This platform needs this kind of content.
I was so waiting for this video! Thank you, LSO!
I am happy to se another video so early after the much demanding three video series you completed just weeks ago. I love your work!
Interesting chap. He turns up every 7 years or so makes an Indie movie with a big Hollywood budget with top actors that are scrambling to work with him and then he returns to lecturing or academia until the next one.
Lecturing or academia?
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way. I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you. Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
What do you mean by lecturing?
What are you talking about? He released 5 feature-length films in the 2010s...
That sounds like a fun life
Every addition to your catalogue blows me away more than the last. Thoughtful, intricate, and irresistibly captivating.
"The Thin Red Line" is among my top five fav movies. Terrence, Ridley Scott and Stanly Kubrick movies beats my heart. And now with Christopher Nolan the future of movies is looking bright.
Don't forget Dennis Villeneuve and Noah Baumbach
I agree Nolan gives hope to cinema. But so does Villenuve! ☺️
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way. I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you. Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
@@nyachan321 You're absolutely right Very good insight about the phisical sphere and how Lars von Trier talks in that direction It hasn't to be all about blockbusters Eres un máquina jajaja
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Man, I had to stop all of my work to enjoy this look at his work. Bravo!
What a wonderful piece! Thank you for the time and care you put into it.
Your voice is so soothing. Thank you for this.
I teach a Storyboard course and I recently launched a project for the students involving the connective film motif of nature in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, Terrence Malick and Werner Herzog. The three directors share somewhat similar sensibilities in regard to nature, the environment, the bonds between people as well as their philosophies and place in the universe. Your videos on Malick and Herzog really helped the students gain some idea as to the thought process of these two directors. I think Miyazaki would be a very worthwhile director for you to do an introspective on.
Thank you for this. I was lucky enough to meet Terry in the summer of 2018. He is truly a magical, gracious, elegant person and I love his work so dearly. I remember when I first showed his work to my husband and told him to think in musical terms - to consider Malick's films as tone poems. It worked great but I prefer your analysis as always!
The consistent quality of your content and the frequency that you are able to release videos is really something special. Well deserved of everything that comes your way. Ty
Spectacular work as always. I’ve been looking forward to a comprehensive video on Malick, and my goodness did you deliver. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Your content is consistent and top notch. I like the fact that I always come away with a new perspective that challenges how I previously viewed things. I really appreciate your work.
This is my favorite visual essay on film and philosophy ever. Thank you, keep up the great work.
i just want to say thank you mate.thanks for making me feel so small and wide eyed all over again.thanks for letting me feel awed by all that i dont know,all that is beyond me instead of being daunted by them as often is the case.thanks for imbuing the unknown with sweetness and joy.i have nothing but gratitude
This brought me to tears. Thank you.
Wow, I am speechless. It is hard for me to find words, to put down my thoughts. I could feel again what I feel when I watch his films, the touch deep down, resonating with my soul. I do not know why that is happening but I can feel his movies, I can feel his images, I can feel the ideas, not on philosophical level but deeper on the level of heart. I really enjoyed this essay and it inspired me and gave me some ideas for my film analysis which I am writing on Thin Red Line for the film school. So I wanted to say thank you for this and that it is great that there are such channels one can get inspired and learn something new at the same time. Keep it up!
Beautiful! You, my friend, are like Malick, doing philosophy with your art. It is so intimate, like whispering in my ears. So intense...
Beautiful as always 😢 Thank you! 💓💗
This is the best video I've ever seen on films in my life so far. Thank you!
How I came to arrive here so late? This video and channel are like oasis in the desert of surfacial culture. In this time of frivolity, speed, vanity and lie, this is highly valuable. Thanks for this work. Furthermore, it is not only interesting, but also aesthetically sublime. Like poetry, it gives rhythm to meaning. Love this.
Best Malick content I've seen on youtube. Amazing stuff!
This is amazing. I just ran into a really obscure paper on Philosophy of Cinematography yesterday and I was awestruck and confused at the same time (despite being a Philosophy major). But this video resonates with me immediately and I certainly love your editing. Glad I came across your channel!
normally I do not comment on youtube but I just have to say that I love your videos so much. The way you talk, the images of the movie and the short sequences of the people in the movie talking are so well connected. and of course also the connection to the philosophical questions of life. keep it up❤️
This was my most favourite of all your analyses so far! Please keep it up!
Your videos seem to find me when I need them most my friend. Thank you for comforting me with beauty
I am crying right now...thank you for this masterpiece!
I'm definitely a Malick fan - THE THIN RED LINE is in my Top Ten Favorite Films of All Time - but this introspective adds more understanding to my fondness of and philosophical curiosity in his work.
Just beautiful. This made me even love Terrence Malick more. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is a wonderful analysis of Malick's films. Many years ago, I was working on a PhD looking at Heidegger's philosophy so Malick is a filmmaker whose work I hold dear to my heart. Although Malick himself never really talks about his influences, anyone who has read Heidegger will see the German thinker's influence running deep through the filmmaker's oeuvre. Interesting fact; Malick translated Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes into English, which was published in 1969.
I just love you brother. Your videos capture the human experience in all its ways. They are profound just as our lives. Never have I ever seen video essays like yours which hit right in the heart! They are so intense, and emotional that after watching them I'm left with a shiver of immense beauty that is utterly inexplicable.
I have been following your channel for a long time and I am always excited to see your analysis videos subsequently coming away from each video more enlightened. I can't for the life of me understand how your channel has not climbed into the million subscriber mark, it is by far the most deserving channel on this site of having millions of subscribers. Thank you for your videos and thoughts.
I just want to say, yours is a true video essay. Most of the youtube essayists kind of meander, circling the drain of making a point. But what you make is structured and researched, and exact in its goal. Good stuff.
This was SO good, as usual. Thank you.
This mans films are vastly underrated. The Thin Red Line is my favourite film of all time.
A Lament for Peace has got to be my favorite piece of music without lyrics.. It never fails to bring me to tears when i hear it. Keep on keepin on brother!
This video and your explanation is like a meditation on life and being, Thank you for your time and effort 💕
I honestly love all his films, thanks for this
Like Kubrick, Malick is one of my all-time favorite 'auteur' directors, who likewise sought the random right 'moment' or spontaneous 'accident' to complete his visual 'tone poems'. And when you intro-ed his films with Praetorius' _Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,_ I knew you 'get' him too. Insightful, magical stuff, very well done... thank you so much!
I've never heard of Terrence Malick before. And I don't remember watching any of the movies you show us here. But man, with just 1 minute of video, I've decided that I have to watch his whole cinematography. Every shot looks amazing. Thanks again for showing us amazing these "hidden gems", friend.
Honestly your most profound work regarding Malick yet. It's a testament to why I love your channel so much, plus why Malick is truly one of (if not my *favorite*) filmmakers out there. What you've accomplished here is something I'm sure most would agree with, and that is how deep down I've known a lot of these things you discuss in some way shape or form, but lacked a framework to articulate it. I've often found myself lacking proper words to *really* describe Malick's body of work to my friends who haven't seen his films, or even heard of them. "He's a philosopher-filmmaker" is what I've usually boiled it down to, along with saying it's best to simply experience his work at face-value. That said however, I'll definitely be sharing this video with them because again, you've really brought a clarity to what I and many others have known and/or felt! On a side note, what did you think of A Hidden Life? I loved it. I saw it twice here in New York City during its limited run, and both times afterwards, I walked out of the theater into a cold and rainy December night. Given that quote on experiencing a film in theaters and then walking back out into the world, it was an interesting contrast to say the least.
he gives us a portal to see the world's beauty, and strips away the distractions that keep us from wonder, possibly my favorite filmmaker especially if im looking to cry
I just want to say thank You. You keep on giving my introspection a high quality jet fuel of content ;)
Where were you when I was writing my dissertation on this very topic last year! Brilliant stuff, thank you for sharing.
This is the most important video i saw on KZhead this year, thank you so much! You put the right words on my reflection on the Malick vision.
Oh my god. I love Malick, I love philosophy, and I love you. This video is incredible. And you know quite well how to appeal to metaphysics without getting too corny, which is an astounding achievement. Thank you so much for this video, it has given me so much insight into Malick's cinema.
It perfectly catches my journey on philosophy and how Malick achieved to incorporate that in his works. Stellar video. You are an account i'm gonna binge
Just when I thought this channel could not get any better ... it does precisely that. Thank you.
One of the best video essays I have seen. Well done!
Fantastic! This really resonated with me, I think because of the distancing we experience during Corona, and the public uncertainty we feel today. I try to stay open, but sometimes, i forget. Thank you for reminding me.
this is your best film essay yet!
That brought the real “feels”, my brother. Thank you for making this video - it put words into the experience of loving Malick’s films but not quite connecting the dots between the filmmaker and his films...
A great analysis and one of the best videos I've ever watched. Absolutely clarifying, inspiring and on point. Congratulations!
I think this is your best video so far. Simply amazing. Thanks.
Dude, that was incredible. Thank you so much.