The grandeur and mystical quality that Terence Malick brings to his films in ways couldn’t be further from Sean Baker’s very modern, beautifully naturalistic, verging on documentary style. But in the two films this week you see older men pursue much younger women. The theme of corruption, ideas of what it means taking someone from their home, and the inevitability of men to tend towards violence and destroy something pure are things both these films have in common.
🎬 #24 Spoiler: Malick's Virgin Land.
🎬 #24 Spoiler: Malick's Virgin Land.
🎬 #24 Spoiler: Malick's Virgin Land.
The grandeur and mystical quality that Terence Malick brings to his films in ways couldn’t be further from Sean Baker’s very modern, beautifully naturalistic, verging on documentary style. But in the two films this week you see older men pursue much younger women. The theme of corruption, ideas of what it means taking someone from their home, and the inevitability of men to tend towards violence and destroy something pure are things both these films have in common.