The New World
This viewer's first experience of the film - 172-minute extended cut at a cinema - was made possible by some unusual conditions, where she could organise the screening by herself when the film was neglected by almost all cinemas, despite Terrence Malick's fame: a first experience that almost no one else in the world had been able to have before, it turns out. A lady among the audience, who had watched the theatrical cut prior to the screening, described the compromise the former had to make as "crazy": some movies are never meant to be cut short.
Mini Review: The mystery and struggle of the encounter between two worlds, as the tragedy of history, and the way of love. The intersection of these two layers, at a time that was in no way like before or after, singularly unfolded for us the infinite realm of questioning that's called human life, which Malick takes his time to depict with marvellous sound and picture like no one else has done or could do. A singular achievement. Must be viewed at a cinema with good conditions, and 172-minute version only.
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