![]() ![]() Don't get me wrong, this film is about as compelling as it can be, seeing as how it is so deliberately bland, but dullness, believe it or not, is hardly this film's only problem. Shoot, this film is still a whole lot better than "Days of Heaven", so I guess he's on the right path, now all he needs to do is keep the pretty stuff coming, but actually cut out the boring lyricism stuff and actually tell a story, or at least keep what story there is from succumbing to focal unevenness. ![]() Hey, it only took Malick seven years after "The Thin Red Line" to get this film out, rather than twenty, so either his films are getting a little less coma-inducing, or I'm just searching for some kind of sign that shows that Malick may actually make a film that is awesome one day. Yeah, I reckon it's safe to say that if Malick is going to be the new Stanley Kubrick, then he might want to pick up the pace, for although Kubrick was known to also experiment with stylish, lyrical and glacially paced limpers with little actual plot structuring, the main reason why he waited years, upon years, upon years to get a film out was because he was just cool like that, not necessarily because it took a couple of decades for his fans to wake up after seeing his previous effort. That being said, I like this snoozefest, because Terrance Malick sure knows how to make a punishingly slow, dizzyingly dry film good, even though you'll find yourself wanting more when you walk away, not necessarily from a Malick film, but from the nap or coma you're bound to slip into somewhere during this film. "A whole new world, a new fantastic point of view, no one to tell us no or where to go, or say we're only dreaming!" Oh no, wait, that's "Aladdin", and this is supposed to be "Pocahontas", but either way, the point is that we're not actually talking about a Disney film, as if you couldn't tell from the fact that Disney generally does films that are short and, well, entertaining. ![]()
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