“Weak people never bring anything to an end themselves.
They wait for others to do it.”
There’s a reason I have such trouble remembering details
from any of Terrence Malick’s films. He composes them with fleeting touches.
There are no traditional movie scenes involving events or actions coupled with
dialogue. These are the things that are easy to recall: “Remember that scene
when so and so says…?” With Malick the best you get are snapshots that almost
float freeform from one to another. They are like memories of a life
remembered, says star Ben Affleck in one of the DVD extras. Even the one Malick
film I’ve seen more than once, The Thin
Red Line, stands in my memory more as a series of images in no particular
order, but because there’s no real A to Z plot there’s no glue to hold it
together in my mind.
