Terrence Malick's exploration of American space has a fan in Chloe Zhao. The filmmaking of Terrence Malick can be both inclusive and exclusive. At different points in his career, he's chosen to invite the audience into multiple perspectives and experiences in order to get the message of the chosen story across. That point of view fluctuates in a movie like The New World, which is simultaneously about the wonderment of discovery, the power of love, and also the foreboding evil that was colonization and genocide in the early Americas. In a 2016 essay by Tom Gunning, he dissects the themes of the film. "The New World shows the beginning of this destruction, but Malick’s title offers more than bitter irony," he wrote. "The film unfolds as a Blakean epic, both personal and historical, of the journey from innocence to experience." Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 21 October, 2020