Marina: Newborn. I open my eyes. I melt. Into the eternal night. A spark. You got me out of the darkness. You gathered me up from earth. You've brought me back to life.
Father Quintana: Flood our souls with your spirit and life so completely that our lives may only be a reflection of yours. Shine through us.
Anna: Life's a dream. In dream you can't make mistakes. In dream you can be whatever you want.
Marina: I write on water what I dare not say.
Father Quintana: We wish to live inside the safety of the laws. We fear to choose. Jesus insists on choice. The one thing he condemns utterly is avoiding the choice. To choose is to commit yourself. And to commit yourself is to run the risk, is to run the risk of failure, the risk of sin, the risk of betrayal. But Jesus can deal with all of those. Forgiveness he never denies us. The man who makes a mistake can repent. But the man who hesitates, who does nothing, who buries his talent in the earth, with him he can do nothing.
Neil: My sweet love. At last. My hope. How I loved you...
Marina: Love that loves us... thank you.
Jane: Will you pray with me?

Neil: [voice over] I had no faith. You knew. Were you afraid?
Father Quintana: You shall love, whether you like it or not.
Father Quintana: There is love that is like a stream that can go dry when rain no longer feeds it. But there is a love that is like a spring coming up from the earth. The first is human love, the second is divine love and has its source above.
Neil: What are you laughing at?

Jane: You.

Neil: Me?

Jane: You make me laugh. You make me happy.
Father Quintana: You have to struggle with yourself. You have to struggle with your own strength.
Father Quintana: [voice over] Where are you leading me? Teach us where to seek you. Christ, be with me. Christ before me. Christ behind me. Christ in me. Christ above me. Christ on my right. Christ on my left. Christ in the heart. Flood our souls with your spirit and life... so completely... that our lives may only be a reflection of yours. Shine through us. Show us how to seek you. We were made to seek you.
Marina: How had hate come to take the place of love?
Marina: Weak people never bring anything to an end themselves. They wait for others to do it.
Marina: My God, what a cruel war. I find two women inside me. One... full of love for you. The other... pulls me down towards the earth.
Marina: Where are we... when we're there? Why not always? Which is the truth? What we know up there? Or down here?

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Elyse 2022-03-26 09:01:13

À la merveille, Le Mont Saint-Michel.
Aliza 2022-03-25 09:01:22

Malik's sixth book, exploring mortal and divine love. 1. If it is said that Malick’s previous works have narratives (the strongest narrative is [New World], followed by [Heaven’s Day] [Bad Earth]), this film can be said to have completely gone into no plot and stream of consciousness. 2. The shattered editing is excellent, completely following the flow of emotion and perception, a well-deserved American poetry film. 3. Still shot by Lubezki, almost all of the shots are wide-angle sports shots taken by hand (with stabilizer), which follow the characters' minds and flow. 4. Lots of backlit shots (the sun seems to be everywhere, it’s always nice weather), empty shots, and progressive shots. 5. It is very interesting that most of the film is the subjective point of view of the character played by Ben Affleck, but the poetic and murmured monologue/narration is always read by two women and a priest. The split (observation and narrative) is intriguing, and the male protagonist is also a purely passive existence. 6. So free and tangled, Mont Saint Michel +1 at the beginning and end. 7. That light in the depths of the soul, it is easier to touch than natural light | Christ is in my heart. (8.0/10)