I haven't seen To the Wonder but from an IMDB ratings point view, Knight Of Cups is worse. Thanks for the heads up so I will skip it in the event I come across it on some form of rental media.
I have seen at 3 other Malik films and have noticed that his style has a dense or thick feel, like walking through deep mud or molasses. In general don't look for films by any given writer/producer/director even though I see their names as part of promo trailers. I try to choose by story line and the actors. Knight of Cups had quality actors, the kind who are known for their ability to get in character as opposed to those who always seem to just play themselves. I rented it at a local rental store without doing prior research and in hindsight wouldn't have.
I agree with the statement about
Unionist uprisings in the South during the Civil War (a fact that was carefully expunged from my history textbooks, growing up in the South)
in your review of FSOJ. That is one reason why I liked this film, it was a story I had never heard, even though I knew the entire south was not for slavery or secession as well as knowing that many northern abolitionists had their own agenda for freed slaves.
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workbumpf
7 years ago
I loved Tree of Life though it was widely loathed by many. But To the Wonder was effectively like trying to walk through molasses. Excruciatingly bad. Poor old Malick. I guess, like Coppola, he started believing his own hype.
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