I don't own this. But this is one of the most incredible monologues I've ever heard, and it needs to be on here. All rights belong to Malick, FilmNation Entertainment, Redbud Pictures, and Magnolia Pictures.
_Where are you leading me?_ _Teach us where to seek you._ _Christ, be with me._ _Christ before me._ _Christ behind me._ _Christ in me._ _Christ beneath me._ _Christ above me._ _Christ on my right._ _Christ on my left._ _Christ in the heart._ _Thirsting._ _We thirst._ _Flood our souls with your spirit and life..._ _so completely..._ _that our lives may only be a reflection of yours._ _Shine through us._ _Show us how to seek you._ _We were made to see you._
This makes the life of a Catholic priest look heroic, like that of an unsung hero. Sure many have messed up, and horribly so, but countless others are sincerely trying to serve their Lord Jesus Christ. Yet the news rarely pays attention to these imperfect but earnest men who want to do the right thing. The scene doesn't romanticize their job so much as shed light on something we never knew was there.
>Yet the news rarely pays attention to these imperfect but earnest men who want to do the right thing. How many of those men publicly called out Popes John Paul and Benedict for protecting the child abusive priests?
one of the most profound movies I have ever seen. A perfect spiritual medicine. A leap of faith into the meaning of life through parallel lives. looks like a sacred stained glass.
I think you will discover the essence of this movie by simply throw out any prejudice and assumption you've already had on essential concepts of life, universal love, loss, spiritual wisdom, blending with people and the nature, solitude, destination, the very question about the existence of God and its ways of guidance and nurture, etc. as we all have. Once we empty the cup of mind, I truly believe it will be filled with the spiritual experience embedded in this "experimental" work of art and get the message, spontaneously and with least amount of words.
I think Marina completed a cycle of intention > dependence > (pseudo-) Love > solitude > doubt > separation > self > awareness. So that she could find herself within her ambitions and illusions, came back to spirituality and overcame her fake alacrity. By visiting the church, I think she entered into a state of submission and saved herself from falling into the abyss of depression, so that she realized she had just chosen a new life only for running from herself (or maybe also for the sake of her child).
People just don't talk about other movies like this; I think that says something about his films. They're not pretentious, they're a journey, and the end of it doesn't feel like anything you've known before.
I personally found this film more disjointed than his 'Tree of Life' and 'The New World'. I was less satisfied with it in its entirety but this scene alone is worth the price of the film and what could I have expected when I compared it to perfection?
Roger Ebert understood this movie well. From his review: As the film opened, I wondered if I was missing something. As it continued, I realized many films could miss a great deal. Although he uses established stars, Malick employs them in the sense that the French director Robert Bresson intended when he called actors "models." Ben Affleck here isn't the star of "Argo" but a man, often silent, intoxicated by love and then by loss. Bardem, as a priest far from home, made me realize as never before the loneliness of the unmarried clergy. Wandering in his empty church in the middle of the day, he is a forlorn figure, crying out in prayer and need to commune with his Jesus. A more conventional film would have assigned a plot to these characters and made their motivations more clear. Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth of his vision. "Well," I asked myself, "why not?" Why must a film explain everything? Why must every motivation be spelled out? Aren't many films fundamentally the same film, with only the specifics changed? Aren't many of them telling the same story? Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. We realize they come as a gift through no power of our own, and if we lose them, isn't that almost worse than never having had them in the first place? There will be many who find "To the Wonder" elusive and too effervescent. They'll be dissatisfied by a film that would rather evoke than supply. I understand that, and I think Terrence Malick does, too. But here he has attempted to reach more deeply than that: to reach beneath the surface, and find the soul in need.
In time people will begin to understand this film more just like they have done with The New World, now considered one of the best films of the 00's. I personally don't think it helped that To the Wonder followed The Tree of Life which is a masterpiece.
what philosophers miss by being abstract in words , mallick like an elusive artist as painted on canvas. Clear water with depth telling details in silence is what human conciousnes yearns for. Mallick has mastered the art of Spiritual projections. we should learn and wakeup from the slumber.
This epiphany sequence is the most powerful movie climax scene I have ever seen. Beautiful movie and an amazing scene that evokes so much emotion and thought.
I have to say that watching The Tree of Life and To The Wonder have become a big part of my spiritual life , they cut thru my crap , to remind me that what matters most is to be at one with 'the love that loves us' and to Love . ok that sounded really baddly hippie i know but its true!!
I am fascinated by this movie.. For those with an interest in such things, would anyone care to venture a guess on the MBTI types of the characters in this film?
watched the movie when it came out ,.,.and the reason i liked it it waz when Javier starts in this scene .,.the monologues its wonderful i am not a believer but his voice and the words are truly gripping .,
" But this is one of the most incredible monologues I've ever heard, and it needs to be on here." - Marshall Nelson. I totally agree! Thank you so much for posting it!!!
Just tremendous. Thanks so much for posting this. The birds shifting in flight...Javier was in another film with a key scene had birds shifting in flight (BIUTIFUL---See It!).
@@DelightLovesMovies Of course I did. I can't say what is his best film as each has their own soul that resolves within a person. I love all his films, from Badlands, Days of Heaven to A Hidden life, I also have a profound respect for this trilogy, which a lot of film goers have dismissed after a Tree of Life.
Don't forget my friends, the best masterpiece of Malick who's The Thin Red Line. En français La Ligne Rouge. I have seen thid movie more than 9 times and it's always touching at my great open eyes. What a film maker, what a genius of the 7th art.
not my fav Malick movie, a bit too ethereal, but this shows me, he must basically make these short sequences and then stitch them all together. He has so many poetic sequences in his movies that taken as a short 3-7 minute segement are just pure cinematic perfection.
All you had to do was Repent, admit your mistakes and turn from them and follow Jesus. That was it. So start now, be humble, do it publicly, you could actually help others if that is what you are truly about.
what a shame about the christ specifity, malick could aim for true universality instead : beyond borders, nations, religions raising himself to true spirituality connected directly with universe and source passing over intermediate stops ... nonetheless i appreciate his work and especially his continuation of the european/tarkovskyan tradition
You seem to be the only person who focused on that rather than on the overall beauty of the video. I am muslim and I don't mind at all, I have my own belief but I can still understand the meaning of the video. It doesn't matter. Everything is in the mind 😄
