Initial thoughts while watching TToL: ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ...........................................................................
Afterthoughts: I felt like an idiot
Thoughts after having some time to digest the grandness of what I witnessed: A 2 hr and 18 min convoluted, pretentious poem - and the most beautiful film ever made by man. The cinematography, camera work, editing, and production design were just insane. INSANE. I can't quite decide it was really actually plotless and pretentious or just absurdly ambitious. I can't decide if it was poignant and profound or a boring mess of grand ideas that were too great in scope to come together to make a coherent film. Although it never actually deeply affected me, I feel if I was in the right mind state and had a rewatch (which I most definitely will) it might be sincerely moving and transcendental, which I'm assuming was the result Malick was aiming for. A contradictory conclusion: Malick's best and worst film. It's a deep, involving, flawed masterpiece. Go see it.
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