The New World | The Lost Art of Grief
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An examination of sorrow and grief in Terrence Malick’s The New World based on Francis Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow
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The New World to me is a film that gets better with each viewing and although there’s so much to discuss about it; because I’ve already talked about Terrence Malick’s filmmaking style in my videos on Knight of Cups and The Tree of Life, I wanted this one to be a more thematic exploration and I thought Francis Weller’s book was the perfect fit for that as it reveals some of the deeper themes beneath the love story at the surface. What other films do you think capture this lost art of grief?
Like Stories of Old Campion's Bright Star comes to mind (since it's my favorite film). All the characters in that film are enduring silent sorrows while life goes on around them. Even her attempt at finally expressing it at the end gets caught in her chest, her breath and body having forgotten how to externalize it.
Do you write essays or books! I will love to read the transcripts of your videos so I can pause and reflect. I enjoy replaying your videos, works of art!
To me, 'Ordinary People' is a film that captures this lost art of grief. All the members of the family have their own quiet, unspoken ways of grieving that affect the viewer deeply.
Like Stories of Old, this is yet another brilliantly made Video Essay. I love the way you interpret Malick's ideas and his visual poetic expressions.
Thank you for another incredible analysis. I think Good Will Hunting also addresses the notion of making space in oneself, and with another person, to attend to the grief and pain that had been neglected and unattended to and was therefore governing how he lived his life. Inside Out also actually does a good job of illustrating the importance of hearing sadness/grief as much as you would listen to joy, because if the feeling is there, it is there for a reason and is destructive to ignore because it ultimately leads to a numbing of oneself.
Our lust for what we have been indoctrinated to believe is happiness; through endless consumption of external stimulation, be it culinary, sports, fashion, or whatever else we obsess over are all fantastic distractions to run away from our pain. The horrific world of marketing and advertising has no doubt led the charge in the stimulus infiltration of our minds, as they well know that a numb a population, dependent on external experiences to feel alive, is most susceptible to being sold love, or friendship, along with a barbeque or a car.
Ultimately, however, going toward our pain and giving it space within to be felt creates a liberation, and going away from our pain creates prisons, which largely exist in order to maintain an orbit around the gravity our grief creates.
Your work is brilliant, Thank you.
The New World is one of the most underappreciated films ever, and still my favourite Malick film.
In my view, it is appropriately appreciated. Great filmography and a method to tell its message, great storyline, but a misleading message based on untrue historical reality.
As art, I give it an A, as historiography, I give it a C.
I vote for The Thin Red Line
I think that was the best one too. But The New World hits me the hardest
"The deeper the sorrow, the greater the joy.". Perfect for those who suffer
But those who suffer, those who feel deeper the sorrow have a hard time to even approach joy...
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So true. Evidently this joy won't be experienced until one is dead.
We're too obsessed with temporary happiness, practically idolize it. Sometimes, we do need to remember our sorrows, to remember our full range of emotions.
"A Flatline Culture." Thats the best name for our culture I have heard. Good to hear someone else express it
This flatline can be experienced while dying in all sorts of ways that seem to be a bit more "collective." Visions of hospital lights moving above. An urgent need to go somewhere else (speaks to the collective denial). Fleeing from a car wreck that you may have been responsible for, running down a highway in the desert without the right shoe. The car is our soul and we don't seem to go back for it too often. God bless those that do, and may we sit with the reality of where we are, and regain an essence of what has been lost.
This was beautiful. I connected with this on such a profound level, for my heart yearns for a society where everyone can freely express their emotions. Im an extremely emotional person, but yet i conceal most of my sorrow, my joy, my pain, especially around family. Its as if im a robot.. but yet its so hard to get past this emotional "wall" that I have created. It is like I am a completely different person around them than i truly am deep down, for my emotions and the way i experience life in general is seldom expressed. I find that this seems to be the case for most living in North America, where I live. People hide their smiles with their hands, they cry in the privacy of their room, their go to words when experiencing sorrow are, "im okay" not to to mention.. if you ever dance around or sing in public, people look at you like you're batshit crazy. Its so odd to me how we are so isolated from one another, there is barely any sense of a "tribe" in our lives anymore, even within our own families. People act like having aliens coming down to earth would be so wild and scary yet I think I would feel the same, for we all act like aliens to one another.
jaanthenymph I know exactly how you feel. I couldn’t have described the fake “society “ any better. I wonder if everyone is walking around this way .
I totally agree with both of you. Today I actually told my friend about how it took several sessions to stop doing this when I was meeting with my therapist. My wife and I just separated and I was suicidally depressed yet I was still wearing this facade in my therapy sessions like I was in good spirits; clear-headed and optimistic; looking toward the future. In fact, I was heartbroken, lost, and extremely vulnerable but I was operating under the implicit assumption that I can't go around telling people I was in such bad shape.
I think it's important we do come out and share these experiences. TH-cam is kind of perfect for it because of the whole anonymous thing actually. As long as others see these, more people will open their eyes to their own similar experiences.
@@peterfazio9306 I really relate, as I've done this in therapy, too. Kept up the "I'm ok" persona until I could trust that I wouldn't be ridiculed. It's just so ingrained in us.
And we all have such a need to express true emotion that we pay therapists to do this, to process our grief and pain, because none of us know how to do this with each other. In our culture, therapy is considered safe because it's done in private. Meaning, we're safe from being shunned for feeling, and others are safe from being confronted with another's pain. We're living in a time of toxic positivity.
Maybe that's what group therapy is ultimately about - it's a community of people sharing their grief.
Damn, I felt this comment. Thank you.
Jaanet can we please be friends, cause we’re definitely kindred spirits.
This. Is. Brilliant.
Thank you for creating and sharing.
"Tonight I want to tell you about my sorrow. And I wanna hear all about your sorrow. And there's nothing broken. Nothing needs fixing."
❤ 🙏 ❤
Ancestral grief in DNA
Holy shit, that was astonishingly beautiful.
I've always felt that suffering alone was counter-productive, it's always annoyed me. Now I understand why. We developed together as a species. Just because we are so far removed from how we once were, does not mean we have forgotten. This causes me such heartache.
"It is a sign of this time
that the old heroic nature
goes begging for honor."
- Hölderlin
Thank you. This was beautiful.
I didnt know there are so many beautiful messages in that movie. I should watch again more carefully. You are gifted with very deep analysis capability. You may be an infj like me. I love this channel so much.
Thank you very much for this video. I feel the need to speak a word of caution: Tribal cultures are often romanticized. They often did not live in "harmony" with nature and exploited and changed their surroundings (the most famous example is probably Easter Island). Of course, they didn't have the means to influence their surroundings as much as we do with heavy machinery which is why it is less obvious. Also, tribal cultures were often extremely violent, as Stephen Pinker explains in his book "The Better Angles of Our Nature".
You bring up a good point, thanks!I had planned on expanding a bit on that in the annotated video - I think the tribal cultures in movies like these aren't necessarily always portrayed as historically correct but also as a metaphor for these parts of ourselves that we feel we have lost due to modernity. I feel like most people who really romanticize tribal cultures often give the impression that we need to 'go back' to that way of life in the literal sense which of course isn't an option, and so what I liked about the Francis Weller book is how it only looks back to discover the lessons that were lost and explore how we can use them to move forward.
Good points! (I didn't mean it as a critique of your video.)
True, i heavily disagree romanticizing these tribes for that. IMO they were at war with nature, killing animals, other tribes and anything to survive. Its understandable but would not call it living in harmony. Of course i still respect this analysis for other aspects and just for exploring things we have lost.
It's important to know that Easter island weapons were non-lethal as explained in this post (news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160222-easter-island-rapa-nui-collapse-archaeology-moai-mataa-warfare-weapons-Jared-Diamond ). But they sure were violent towards nature due to the human instinct to overcome everything. The point of the video was to suppress this feeling and make harmony with nature and our nature itself, to acknowledge every emotion mainly grief and sorrow, which we usually don't do due to the judgemental society.
Almost as soon as Europeans came to North America they pretty much decimated nature and the environment ---- nature was and is aboriginal's form of spirituality - maybe not perfectly but us whiteys could learn a shit load about what it is to live in harmony with nature from them.
I've not seen the film but I found this video essay very moving, to the point of tears. Thank you making such thoughtful and empathetic content.
I have, it's not, IMO, as good or even as deep as Malick's The Thin Red Line
Which is what led me to get this film for my collection...I found it as a story, very disjointed, but understand what the director was going for (and how this video relates to that) :)
This is probably one of, if not the best essay I’ve seen on TH-cam. Period. Like the film, it connects with me on so many levels.
God bless you. This material is pure gold. Thank you so much.
I've watched a lot of video essays on this site. Hundreds. But this is the best one I've ever seen.
I really enjoy these videos. Thanks for creating them Like Stories of Old. I am eager to see or hope to see one that deals with justice and how we determine what is just and whether it is a part of our soul or a construct of our society. Be well LSOO.
Interesting topic for sure! Thanks!
Again. Times and times again. Thank you for your videos! And thank you very much for this one in particular. I am in a phase where I am continuously struggling with one great loss that I am still unable to fully integrate into my life. Witnessing such wisdom presented in such a wonderful way works like the best medicine available. My unexpected tears are a certain proof of that...
This channel is by far the best I have ever come across. I can't put into words how amazing your videos are or the feelings I get when watching them. Thank you!!
Magnificent creations, each of these. Thank you. Moved to tears yet again, and this very facet of my being, needing to speak of a deep sorrow to at least one caring soul, is something I myself have recently gone through with a long-dormant grief from my early childhood. The sharing does matter. That grief does move, and our heart can breathe new breath, and heal if we simply speak it to another soul.
Brother, you're making some amazing videos. Great work, love them, thank you. I was reminded of the scene in Castaway where Tom Hanks' character talks about his second loss of Helen Hunt's character after he drove her home following the kiss in the rain.
when i was an infant I clearly remember thinking of an fulfilled existence, full of understanding, cooperation and coherence, although, i did not comprehend the concept of time and gender, i clearly understood that i must learn so much, and i thought that is going to be peaceful and harmonious, now you can only imagine how much i was disappointed and distressed, starting form daycare., ergo, i concur regarding the natural feeling of a healthy existence and cooperation. one more thing I have to add, that grief must be intelligent, and as wise important, however, suffering is optional. good video, many thanks!
I always find myself coming back to such videos, when I am at my wits end. It is such videos I return to when I need to remind myself that, despite the world we have inherited, there is good.
This video is truly beautiful quality content - I’m so glad channels like this exist as it feels so good to feel and actually learn and grow x
Discovering this channel is definitely one of the wonderful things happened to me in a while.🤍
I don't know how many times I've watched this now.
People of our time do not grieve over many things, or more precisely could not manage to grieve over anything, so never will they know what they have lost, ergo nothing is appreciated or enjoyed at all in the ultimatum.
People in our time and for a long time now are almost ashamed to grieve properly. Instead, grief is used as a tool of many practical and at times nefarious uses.
Thank you for your time and creativity on this video. Words seem too small to tell you how it made me feel. My Gratitude.
Another great essay. Can't wait to watch this again with these thoughts in mind.
There was so much beautiful perspective shared! At the end this was said: Sharing grief with someone who listens deeply..... I very much recognize this. As a human being who also feels the flatline life lived in this world. I do what I can to look at my life and say that it has value, even though my personality might not many times see it, God does. There is a purpose why we are all here. We do what we can to take life into our hearts and live our lives. I very much miss not having a small tribal family of friends to live and share my life with. Life will head that way. Sometimes we just have to loose ourselves for a while before we find back to ourselves again. Sharing ourselves with others is the natural way inside of us.
Q'orianka Kilcher and Terrence Mallick were a match made in heaven. She is enchanting and able to convey such a depth of feeling in a look. Wonderful actress wonderfully directed.
I literally watch this once a week it seems to get better each time
Reminds me of midsommer and how the villagers shared the grief of the protagonist.
I'm so happy I came across your channel, your videos are very well thought-out and written. You deserve millions of subscribers. Keep up the great work, and I'm certain they will come to you.
I rarely ever comment on anything in TH-cam. But you’re videos are really something special.
Beautiful, thank you.
One of the few channels the videos of which I like before watching, Such apt, profound and insightful philosophical observations absolutely enhances great pieces of art the case in examine already are.
My god, man. You are my favorite TH-camr. You always bring thought to my mind and an emotional response to my soul. Don't you stop. As an aspiring Narrative Lead, you are inspiring and increasing my Narrative Knowledge. I cannot express how thankful I am for you channel's existence. So, thank you. From the deepest of my being, thank you.
Brother... the way you speak in each and everyone of your videos (including this one) seriously give me full on body goosebumps, like no joke. I also hope that you always focus on quality over quantity on your videos (just as you have been doing so far). Keep them rolling mate :)
The best channel in TH-cam! I'm a Malick fanatic!
Omg, this video is everything. THANK YOU!
I really liked that quote you used by Francis Weller on grief. Indeed, There seems to be so much preoccupation with “fixing” or “eradicating” things -including our human emotions -in our modern culture.
Truly beautiful work weaving not only the influences of the work, but the words of the director in with your own interpretation. Your channel is an actual moving work of art and I appreciate it. Thanks for it.
This is becoming my favourite channel on TH-cam! Thank you so much!
Thank you. I find myself alone in my grief as if because a certain time has passed I'll be over it by now. I'm sure this is culturally a British thing. It's very isolating and you're right you dont want to be fixed just for someone to hold space and not make judgements.
I found your book today at a Chicago laundry place... Cool stuff... Applause!
This came at just the rite time in my life thank you
I felt this deeply, what you talk about. Thank you for your movies - they are hope bringing and enlightening, fellow traveler.
Hey Like Stories of Old,
Great video as always!
I just wanted to add that Sorrow still is an important part of some modern cultures.
I'm mostly talking about Russian and Slavic cultures here. There is even a special word in Russian - тоска - which embodies a wider array of emotions than its English counterparts: grief, sorrow, anguish and yearning.
You don't have to delve deep to see this - Russians are usually seen as sullen and grumpy people and are often easy to spot in the crowd due to the lack of smiles on their faces. This is noticeable and Russians either feel guilty for not displaying as much joy or loath Westerners for their fake facade of happiness.
Of course, this difference is not nearly as dramatic as the one depicted in this movie, but it is still there and causes some tension.
And even though I personally think that smiling and "looking happy" is generally better - as suggested by multiple studies on physiology and psychology - I do feel like we isolate and hide our grief way too much these days.
Keep up the good work!
That's really interesting! The book I use in the video is pretty American-centric indeed, thank you for that contribution :)
deLumren - Interesting. In Portugal we also have a similar word, although ours can also represent a sort of satisfying nostalgia, along with the sadder and more negative aspects. It's so representative of our own People's personality that its tangible representation in art, a specific style of music, has become our trademark cultural export. I think the Russian and Portuguese peoples share a lot of ground in terms of art and emotion (especially poetry and literature in general), and the only reason why we're not seen as a sullen people is because we have very sunny weather, which Science tells us helps those with depression. If not for the sun we'd be a very sad bunch - and this is for reasons that mostly escape us. Perhaps 'social grieving' is indeed what we're experiencing, and we kind of embrace it by doing it as a community.
Sometimes theres no other choice than to hide the grief, sometimes theres no one to share it with, or people depend on you and must show youre strong
Wow! Absolutely beautiful.Thank you for this LSOO.
Whenever I learn or realize things about spirituality, my eyes open further to my ex. As much as her sense of empathy, her problem deprives herself of grief. She was taught to prioritize herself over absolutely everyone, so she doesn't completely open up to anyone.
I'm sad for her, but I'm happy to better understand her and life. 😌
thank you for sharing this.
Man, I've been watching a lot of the videos and every single one is beautiful and succinct. Quality content at it's finest
Thank you so much, for doing what you do! Beautiful.
This movie just makes me cry.
Excellent video. Thank you for putting this on TH-cam.
you have one of my favorite channels, and i was pleasantly surprised by your latest, which is one of my favorite movies, its a truly incredible film. I agree with another comment, The Fountain deals effectively with grief, and the graphic novel of the Fountain is a truly great companion to the film as well
I really have no idea which one of your video essays is my favorite. This one however, is high on the list
Your videos are always ON POINT. Good job once again, made me love The New World even more.
Amazing work 😍❤️🌹🔥 Thank you! Please continue 🙏🏻
Wow, this video perfectly articulates what I love about this movie
I let out an audible "YES!" when I saw you'd posted a new video. Keep up the awesome work.
What a beautiful, informative, touching video. This spoke to me on so many levels. Thank you for creating this.
Thank you so much for this. It helps me so much ❤
Such a beautiful analysis Tom, you really have a way of delving into the deepest meaning of these works of art, for all of us to understand.
I humbly request you to consider doing a piece on Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fountain'. I would love to hear your insight on this wonderful film.
Thank you for producing such inspiring videos.
Thank you for this. I enjoy your meditations on Malick's work, and I look forward to reading Weller.
OH MY GOD IM GOING TO BAWL MY FUCKING EYEBALLS OUT.
This is so incredible, its got to be the 50th time I have sat and listened. This is basically who we are, and it terrifies me.
Beautiful and full analysis. Thank you ❤
i've finally watched this, and that's because i saw you have a video about it :))
I haven't seen this movie in a few years now, I'm going to go give it a re-watch before watching this.
I highly recommend the newly released special edition from the Criterion Collection, it's amazing and has all three cuts of the film (I prefer the extended cut)
Thanks for the suggestion. I will watch that one then.
Just discovered you through a comment that you left on Film Radar's color coded "Baby Driver" video. Liking what I see. You've earned yourself a new subscriber. 🤗
Wow, this is really a wonderful piece of art. Thank you!:)
The same can be seen in The Last Samurai
Oh yeah, great pick!
Kinda similar message, but again in my perspective, the message isn't necessarily true. Traditions are good, integration with nature is great, but too many films as a reaction to negative aspects of the modern world idolize the past with extreme distortion. The fall of the samurais was also the moment of the rise of modern Japan and the abundance of that nation in the modern world was only possible because of it. Under the samurais, people were discriminated, they were legally murdered, they were enslaved. Under the modern government, the discrimination existed heavily, but was mitigated than the past, only execution after a trial was legal murder (samurais couldn't kill people on the street with the protection of the law), the enslaved were emancipated.
The Native tribes of America were of course more connected with nature because it benefits more and you are more likely to survive. But tribal life has big limits and one of them is that you can hardly live an abundant life. Just like the English, the Natives had a hard time in survival. When the harvest went bad, the people starved in the winter. You work work work to live one more day. And you repeat it over and over.
Terrence Malick's artistry was magnificent and the film as a work of art was an A. The Last Samurai as well. But their portrayal of the past is heavily biased and misleading.
Loved this!
Very well narrated and created videos.
So much to thank you for Great Spirit Tom. What a wonder-filled essay about something we all must feel but do not share. I love the quote at the end by Terry Tempest Williams about waiting for the village ❤️ You are doing our tribe a great service by opening up these enquiries to the Truth, something amazingly illuminated by the films you explore. The Thin Red Line really effected me growing up. Do you have any plans/themes for that film one day? Metta
I actually planned doing this video on both The New World and The Thin Red Line because I think The Thin Red Line has a very similar element of introducing us to a more tribal way of life in the opening scene only to see it gradually corrupted by warfare (with private Witt as the sorrowful character at the center witnessing all of it).
Man, i love you so much.
I watched this film once when I was too young to really get the nuance of that what was going on. This video makes me want to give it a second try! The film was far more beautiful than I remembered! (I also didn't know who Terrence Malick when I was 8)
I love your book recommendations. Thank you
beautiful. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Not long ago my grandmother died. I haven't known how to grieve. With this, perhaps I can find a place to begin.
Fantastic Job! Keep it up!!
Thank you so much
Thanks for this, look also to Joanna Macy's "Coming Back to Life" and "The Work that Reconnects" for similar themes
I would give so much just to sit down with... LSSO? We need a name to call you. Anyway, I would love to sit down with you and speak. Even just for a few minutes.
I have no idea how many times I have listened to this. Yeah, I have watched a few times, but I mostly have it playing as I fall asleep. I suppose it is comforting to be reminded where we all come from , and how we once were.
What saddens me is, how many can relate to feeling sick for a home they never knew. I want so badly to go home.
I FUCKING love this channel.
Now this is good youtube channel, well done your videos are great.
Thank you.
Encourage to engage with your communities love share care
bring back what we have lost in this modern world.
This was a really wonderful video.
Thank you very much for your immense quality content. With each new essay of yours I am learning something new and of vital importance, therefore, you have my gratitude.
I must ask, do you have in mind to make a video about the work of Andrei Tarkovski? Stalker, maybe? If you do, I will be immensely grateful.
Continue with your incredible work, you possess an incredible talent.
Hi LSOO, when will you be analysing the Thin Red Line?
Excellent video. Very moving. well done.
that's it im moving to the woods
I really enjoy this I need to catch up more on my reading...
"It is hard work, and great art, to make life, not so serious." -John Irving. (The Hotel New Hampshire)
Al crack que los traduce en español, muchas, muchisisisisisimas gracias, totales.
TH-cam doesn’t deserve this channel.
So true!!!