Watching this the first time it felt like a Malick satire, but

hershlag feets

>>80939957
that too

also:

hershlag feels

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>Perhaps no film in the history of cinema follows the movement of memory as faithfully, as passionately, or as profoundly as Terrence Malick’s new film, “Knight of Cups.” It’s an instant classic in several genres—the confessional, the inside-Hollywood story, the Dantesque midlife-crisis drama, the religious quest, the romantic struggle, the sexual reverie, the family melodrama—because the protagonist’s life, like most people’s lives, involves intertwined strains of activity that don’t just overlap but are inseparable from each other. The movie runs less than two hours and its focus is intimate, but its span seems enormous—not least because Malick has made a character who’s something of an alter ego, and he endows that character with an artistic identity and imagination as vast and as vital as his own.

>As such, “Knight of Cups” is one of the great recent bursts of cinematic artistry, a carnival of images and sounds that have a sensual beauty, of light and movement, of gesture and inflection, rarely matched in any movie that isn’t Malick’s own. Here, he—and his cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki—surpass themselves. Where “The Tree of Life” is filled with memories, is even about memory, “Knight of Cups” is close to a first-person act of remembering, and the ecstatic power of its images and sounds is a virtual manifesto, and confession, of the cinematic mind at work. It’s a mighty act of self-portraiture in dramatic action and in directorial creation.

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>>80940340
;_;

>>80939883
>IM KINO

what did he mean by this?

>>80940403
That is what it feels like. Memories overwriting themselves until they become as unreal as dreams.

>>80940651
I mean I just watched a movie anon, it's no big deal

i really loved song to song, but i didn't really gel with this one. anyone feel similar?

>>80940887
How was Song to Song? Did it have a more traditional narrative?

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>Tree Of Life = Coming to terms with your parents' humanity
>To The Wonder = Abandoning the temporary allure of romance in favor of marriage and structure
>Knight Of Cups = Malick admitting that both his previous two movies' plot resolutions may not apply to everyone

This man is your friend; he fights for Kino.

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>mfw watching it right now

>>80940965
i has a more narrative feel to it i guess, but i don't really think it's any more narrative-intensive than any of the post-ttol films. someone said it's his most character-driven film since at least the new world, and i think that conveys the sentiment more clearly. it's still extremely elliptical and ephemeral, but there's a strange, almost invisible grounding that i couldn't find in knight of cups.

>>80941094
That sounds like it may be due to the actors and their relatability, or maybe because it's an ensemble you get to weigh their perspectives for yourself? I imagine some might find Knight of Cups frustrating in how it never escapes Bale's perspective. Of course that was the point.

>>80941368
quite possible. it helps too that i found rooney and others to be better actors for this kind of film, in that they can convey a lot with very little (rooney especially has such an expressive face, she doesn't even need words). but that probably boils down to personal opinion.

one slightly interesting thing though is that it seems very difficult now to say whether someone will like a new malick film based on whether they liked his others. i certainly wouldn't have been excited to see song to song if someone had told me it was just like knight of cups, and i imagine that if i told someone who liked knight of cups that song to song was nothing like it, then i imagine that they too would have very different expectations, despite the fact that they both extremely, for lack of a better term, "malickian" films

>>80940403

>Knight of Cups is a film that feels it has something important to say - much like a twenty-year-old college student who has tried weed for the first time - but in reality, just like said college student, it is speaking nothing but gibberish.

>Perhaps only Christopher Guest can pull off an entirely improvised movie. And perhaps Malick should return to scripts, full-volume voiceovers, and more linear storytelling if he doesn't want to Woody Allen himself and push away fans for good.

>For all its thrumming profundity...has just as much sleepwalking self-parody: all of the actors' pacing and arm-flapping and gazing off into the distance suggests, as much as an art film, the world's longest prescription drug commercial.

>Terrence Malick finally crawls all the way up his own ass with the unwatchable and laughably pretentious Knight of Cups...

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>>80941597
>they didn't read Heidegger

>>80941597
Wow this sure affects my personal enjoyment.

>>80941740
>they didn't having reading heidegger

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Holy fuck Not-Kristen Stewart makes my dick hard

>>80941595
Well for me, I can get a lot out of Knight of Cups but I'm also aware that pretty much anyone I know would tell me to turn that drivel off after five minutes. If something life TToL borders on pretension for a lot of people, everything after that isn't worth bringing to their attention. Their loss I'd say, but that is to say I certainly understand your point.

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>>80941810
>>they didn't having reading heidegger

>>80939883

Malick has developed into a genuinely bad filmmaker. Which actually makes it worse that he's making movies at a much faster pace now.

i enjoyed every malick film i have ever saw even to the wonder, but i could get through knight of cups, i stopped after a half hour or so, i could not concentrate at all, should i try again?

>>80942011
noice dubs.

>>80942102
The only thing I don't like is that he actually appeared in person a few weeks ago
All his mystique is gone now

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>>80941597
>it is speaking nothing but gibberish

>that point when you realize the reviewer is a moron

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He's one of the few directors that surpass and eternally BTFO all career reviewers that have never picked up a camera in their lives but think they can critique his philosophical musings through film. Hilarious watching plebs scramble around lambasting his cinematography and dialogue.

>>80942333
I guess some people need narrative culmination as a reward; introspection is useless without the reward.

>>80942389
Did you make that picture? It's beautiful.

>>80942389
That's a nice image. The Tarot archetypes worked for the film as a loose conceptual structure.

Do people prefer this over To the Wonder?

>>80941597
>>80941597
>Knight of Cups is a film that feels it has something important to say
this is the textbook definition of equivocation. the rest of your post was almost funny.

>>80942747
i don't but i think people in general seem to

>>80940403
What are this guys qualifications?

>>80939883
>>it's supposed to be bad

>>80942747
i do. To the Wonder did little for me. the relationship between Affleck and Kurylenko did not seem real to me. Bardem's crisis of faith, the same. while it was a lovely picture, it didn't move me at all. Knight of Cups, on the other hand, hit pretty close to home. the family troubles, the pilgrim's progress, the stream of relationships, etc.

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>>80942857
His beard

>>80942965
Alright this checks out carry on

>>80942965
I like this more than that cartoon pic. The soulless black eyes make me angry.

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>mfw Freedom

I'm not sure what is going on but I'm sad

>>80943238
Why? It's a new beginning.

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>going to have to wait at least a year before Song to Song makes it to bluray

>>80943869
how long before it's in arthouses at least?

>>80940421
why is hershlag so sad :(

>>80944270
she aborted her baby that might have been her husband's because it might have been Rick's

>>80943238
i feel you man, what are you trapped in?

The worst Malick film by far.

>>80944413
oh ( ._.)

>>80944608
Maybe. Still good though.

>>80942857
This why should i care?

>>80944737
He can string a sentence together far better than you.

>>80944737
It's a well written summation of what the film is, or does right. The way it employs time, memory, etc is key.

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Bane?

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Once the soul was perfect and had wings and could soar into heaven...

So there was a third brother that died right? Why was the brother so angry at their father?

>>80947025
He didn't like his film about a plastic bag

>>80947025
>>80947216
samefag

>>80947216
associative thoughts are not de facto clever observations

>>80947311
>>80947345
i am smart

>>80947367
I sure am, are you

>>80947400
i love you

>>80947435
I don't think about you at all

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>>80947548
Rude, I hope you never get a gf like this

>>80947649
Me too, looks lib af

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>>80947740
Don't talk shit about my gf

>>80947819
I kid she a cute

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>>80947895
thanks
this is me btw

>>80947959
say hi to terry for me

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>>80948013
I said hello to him on set once and he just started flapping his arms about saying "I am a creature of the air" before singing the aria from Das Rheingold

>>80948256
must have been transcendental

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>>80948307
He transcended regular autism, yes

>>80948418
kino
it takes a sperg

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>>80948551
He's not a sperg, he's a Texan

>>80948655
>>80948551
>>80948418
>>80948307
>>80948256
>>80947959
>>80947895
>>80947819
>>80947740
>>80947649
>>80947548
>>80947435
>>80947400
you're the cancer that killed this place
for real kill yourself

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>>80948865
I drive

>>80948865
guaranteed not samefagging unless I'm losing time somewhere

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Who was best waifu?

>>80950087
poots

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>>80950224
I
think
you're
weak

>>80944737
1) He can write a better film review you than.
2) He works at the New Yorker.
3) He knows more about film than you, has studied it more, written about it more, and understands it better than you.
4) He's smarter than you and probably has better taste, too.

Poots is best.

wether you like a Malick film or not depends on how the film relates to your own life.

Tree of Life had nothing to do with anything I ever experienced or even could remotely relate to, so it was completely flat to me.

To the Wonder felt closer enough that I could see the emotion and get washed away in many of the scenes, so I enjoyed it, but it didn`t blow me away.

Knight of Cups felt like it was a movie about my life (no, I`m not a rich screenwriter who dates Natalie Portman).

the concept of seeing sparkles of memories of someone`s life where only the meaningful sentences rise up to the surface and everything gets washed away by emotion feel SO REAL. in fact, I would go so far as saying Malick is the only director who has nailed how to translate raw emotion to screen.

when you see him tackle something you have lived, shit just seeps right into your skin and never lets go.

>>80944270
when he licked her feet, she did not orgamsed as she expected

>>80939883
Badlands is a good film, as in, actual film, it was back when malick was still making movies that dumb masses can follow
Days of heaven and Thin Red Line are perfect balance of malick shit and average movie
The New World is good, even if it's just because of period stuff
the tree of life is the ultimate malick expirence. He'll probably never make another movie like that again.
To the wonder fails because it does not have good actors. Affleck, really? This movie is a mystery to movie. Feels like it was written for other actors, but they weren't available?
Knight of Cups has good actors but lacks things Three of Life had.
Song to song is probably the same as Knight Of Cups. I don't know, but I haven't seen it. But it looks like it

Hope malick makes kino with Radegund

>>80951946
>>80944942
>>80944886
But what *COLLEGE* did he attend?

Only brainlets call auteurism satire.
>>80953090
>To the Wonder fails.
A masterpiece by definition cannot fail and that what To The Wonder is.

Song to Song feels like it has a whole lot more narrative than Knight of Cups.

KoC seemed like a bunch of dreams strung together
Song to Song was more like diary entires.

I found Knight of Cups a little frustrating at times, but enjoyed Song to Song a lot. I also really like all of the actors in Song, but don't really like any in Cups, so maybe that's it

kinolands
days of kino
the thin red kino
the new kino
the tree of kino
to the kino
knight of kino
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voyage of kino
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