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Daija 2022-03-16 09:01:09

[The evolution of higher animals and people, the awakening of consciousness at a certain level. The picture goes something like this: The world is dark despite the ether vibrating everywhere. But one day when people open their eyes and see, there is light. The passage first describes a picture. What will happen to the picture, how it can be used, remains bleak. But to understand the meaning of this passage, it is obvious that its usage must be explored. But the picture seems to save us the job: it already points to a certain usage. We therefore fell for it. ] - LW ​​"Philosophical Research" [Actually, the effort that nature spends on making eyes is no more troublesome than my every move. ] ——Bergson "Creation Evolution" Unfortunately, Malick's film did not work for me, but I can still feel where the director is aiming, so let's talk about it. It has a "National Geographic" visual style that some people love and others despise. I don't despise it, but I also feel that this style is easy to lead people astray. This desperately overpowered vision is extremely clear, comprehensive, and objective, but lacks human sensibility. It is a scientific drawing style. And after decades of education in the age of images, it has long since worn off its freshness and reduced to a scientific magazine illustration. As an artist, it seems to be a loss of duty to be unable to provide fresh sensibilities and to only focus on one's own intentions. Some people say that this film is a reenactment of the theory of evolution, a scientific epic, which is a misunderstanding, although the director himself should be held responsible for this misunderstanding. Statements of true natural history do not specifically imply a scientific perspective. It can be heard that the narration always ends with "Mother, mother...

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  • Alessandro 2022-04-23 07:04:59

    Malick's more than 30 years of documentary work have exhausted the years of the earth and the universe. The beautiful scenery of nature and the origin and evolution of life are presented with fixed or slow and steady motion shots, and then segmented into a combination of hand-held DV shots full of noise to show the life of contemporary people. Blanchett's narration is actually very little. Unlike the narration of science and education documentaries, she is only responsible for dialogue with nature, and highlights the main theme of the film: a tribute to life, a reverence for nature, and a call to be loved. Here, Malick's obsession with [light] is also revealed through language and lenses, just like the massive backlit shots and the always sunny weather in his previous works. [Genesis]: God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. The scene of the magma cooling rapidly in the sea after the eruption of the favorite underwater volcano, and the picture of the magma on the surface cooling to form igneous rocks. PS: The disadvantage of the film is that it is too smooth, smooth, complete, and gorgeous. Although it is indeed profound and grand, it lacks the inevitable ruptures in life, and lacks the suffering and torture behind love and light. (8.5/10)

  • Sydnie 2022-04-22 07:01:54

    Emmmm I don't know how to rate it. It's beautiful.

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Narrator: Mother.

  • Narrator: [opening lines] Mother. You walked with me then. In the silence. Before there was a world. Before night or day. Alone in the stillness. Where nothing was.