That's what Malick does in his films and particularly in this film. There's a picture of James Dean I saw from his youth - a baseball team photo - and the caption said something about how it captured his face, and in it, wisdom and sadness far beyond his years. There's something always elegiac about his movies. Malick somehow manages to make everything seem painfully beautiful: his landscape, his actors, his dialogue. "Badlands" is the best lovers-on-the-lam movie I've ever seen (it certainly makes "True Romance" look like a gimmicky fraud of a movie). "The Thin Red Line" was, to me, an astonishing experience beautiful, horrific and the best movie of the 90s. I think he's one of the few filmmakers who has completely and utterly captured filmic form. Oh, I better come out and say it: I love Terrence Malick.
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