To The Wonder
The anticipated new feature from renowned filmmaker Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, The New World), TO THE WONDER boldly and lyrically explores the complexities of love in all its forms.
Love or something like it, and the absence of God, are the central themes in this trance-like filmic journey that only Terrence Malick could have made.
The entirety of To the Wonder is a kind of unframed flashback, accompanied by Malick's characteristic murmured voiceover and surging orchestral score, not a narrative so much as remembered feelings, glimpses and moments in narrative order and dreamily extended to epiphany length. It is a kind of silent cinema, and the movie's male lead – a performance of dignity and sensitivity from Ben Affleck – is virtually mute.
The absence of God and the presence of love are the two poles of this created world; a world perceived in a trance or delirium, and in which the problem of God gives an inexpressibly painful kind of meaning to the immediate, agonised problem of finding a complete knowledge of another human being. Both Paris and the mid-American heartland look like something from another planet, something witnessed, in delirious detail, under the influence of a powerful drug. There is a rich excess in this movie, and the sensual profusion is not completely absorbed into its texture. Yet only a film-maker as intelligent and idealistic as Malick could have created this kind of surplus value.
Mesmo assim, filme a ver :)
ResponderEliminarEm relação ao tradicional, To The Wonder é refrescante: as histórias de cada personagem são extraídas de pequenas amostras que preenchem o espaço – seja o de uma Europa lindíssima de catedrais, esculturas e mares gélidos, seja nos pôr-do-sol dos confins do Oklahoma. Em sucedâneo, vão compondo uma espécie de poesia ambulante onde atinge-se o arrebatamento pelo poder das imagens. O resultado é um filme que sobrevive de pequenas peças soltas de grande poesia e força intrínseca e que nos seus mais belos momentos chega a lembrar clássicos da desconstrução narrativa como O Último Ano em Marienbad, de Alain Resnais.
ResponderEliminarSim, um filme a ver : uma estimulante poesia em movimento.
P.S- But there’s this feeling like it needs more to make it a truly unique experience. :-)