Terrence Malick has been progressively moving toward the highest form of pure cinema poetry. While many hail Badlands as his penultimate masterpiece--namely for its ingenious reshaping of a story of vagabond serial killers to a lyrical ode of unabashed human impulse--it ironically is as far removed as anything that Malick originally intended to be his masterwork. In fact, I dont think weve seen his masterwork yet. The New World and The Tree of Life are both towering masterpieces, both exercising improvisational scripting, the physicality of open body language acting and the absence of generators or any manufactured studio lights but they are merely precursors to a much grander cinematic opera of the soul that Malick is slowly chipping away at with his current cavalcade of prolific motion pictures. And thats exactly the best way to describe the cinema of Malick: motion pictures. Malicks moving image is the penultimate cinematic experience.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:12:57 +0000
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