Weightless terrence malick biography
Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working..
Terrence Frederick Malick is an American filmmaker.
Wherever one
lands on the polarizing style of Terrence Malick, no one would deny the
spiritual gravitas of his work—cinema obsessed with and overwhelmed by the
mystical and the metaphysical. As much as has been said and written about
Malick, there still remains debate and confusion around the spirituality of his
films.
In attempting to mine meaning from his work, folks continue to land all
over the map, seeing him as everything from a pantheist to an agnostic. The sense of mystery is compounded because Malick is an artist before
he is a theologian or philosopher, and because he hasn’t given an
interview about his own films since 1979.
All that said, I believe Malick’s
cinema is not vaguely or ambivalently religious or spiritual but is, in fact, distinctly and explicitly Christian.
More specifically, I
believe Malick’s films are evangelical; they function as cinematic “liturgies”
that seek to orient the hearts and minds of viewers toward the Christian
story—a w
