Terrence Malick is the third director in my filmmaker philosophy series (following Werner Herzog and Andrei Tarkovsky), which filmmaker should I cover next? Let me know below!
To me, you're a lighthouse. Through your videos I discovered the works of Carl Jung, of Heidegger, of Malick, and many others. It seems incredible to me that someone whom I've never met had such a profound influence in my life. I am forever grateful to you, my teacher. I hope someday we meet. Cheers.
You should check out a couple of lecture series from The Great Courses called “The Great Ideas of Philosophy” and “The Great Ideas of Western Civilization”. I think you’d love them. Happy learning, fellow autodidact!
I rarely comment on videos, but this time I have to. This channel feels like home to me. I listen to your words and feel at peace. Thank you for doing such a consistently great job.
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way. I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you. Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
I came here to say exactly the same thing. The analyses are always thought provoking and calming at the same time. I savor every video for moments when I can take in every bit of the pieces of art you create. Every time I feel like I am aimlessly wondering this Earth, one of your videos is sure to remind me who I am and what I care for. Thank you very much for the content. I'm sure it takes a lot of research, time, effort and heart to make and I appreciate it greatly.
I liked this very much, Many thanks! The only part Malick mistook was to place the 3rd Reich German as an evil machine. This mistake is common among many intellectuals, as they themselves were educated on a sea of historical information, many truthful but many also also distorted by heavy heavy bias. At the present we have a completely wrong reading of the recent wars, as the winner has consecutively written the history. For a philosopher to write within the context of the official history, at least the recent one, many folds of cautions should be taken, and a thorough sceptical revision work be done before state or refer to it.
I don't know if you or anyone will read this, but this video inspired me to read through Being and Time, a book that fundamentally transformed my life for the better during the dark year of 2020. Thank you so profusely for that.
The multilayered richness of your scripts, followed by the fluent and subtle, yet highly complex editing, is a cocktail of skills, one can`t get enough of. Thanks.
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way. I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you. Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
Every one of your videos I feel in the pit of my stomach. After Finishing everything around me seems covered in a golden hue. Finishing your videos doesn’t make me want to watch more it makes me want to turn my phone off and take deep breaths. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos, a source of wonder.
I think this is very interesting. It is important not to forget Malick's deeply Christian themes, that invite us, not to accept our demise and nihilism, but to persist in our search for the eternal, the true and the beautiful.
For me, his great and most unique structure is the story of heaven touching earth, being felt by the characters, and then that heaven being driven away by the sin of the world, the characters then carrying that touching of heaven in their memory and hearts, and that lost heaven pointing their heart's way to a greater heaven. His characters live in Eden for a time and love it fully, and then are driven out, and thereafter they seek after God, and struggle to make an Eden out of the fallen world, which they often do through love, devotion to the truth, and self sacrifice. This structure is strongest to me in The Thin Red Line and in A Hidden Life, and it's perhaps unfair to call it a Christian structure, as he points to the structure that the Christian symbols and stories also describe, a truth of human living bigger and deeper than any account of it.
"If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. A glance from your eyes... and my life will be yours." Thank you Terrence Malick, Thank you @Like Stories of Old.
I've come back to this video over the years, watching it over and over again, showing it to friends, relishing in it. For me, this - not Heidegger, not Malick, but your video - is one of the most important exploratory works of art to communicate the meaning of life. Thank you
This video gets at the heart of why I love the films of Terrence Malick; for me how deeply they speak to me. Their importance lies in the fact that they are contrary to every trend in society. In our worldly madness, how urgently we all need to be reminded "Know thyself". Seek yourself, in that is all Creation. Awaken. Thank you for the substance of your analysis, and thank you Terrence Malick for the substance of your films, and their authentic, almost painful beauty.
Malick's films feel like a distillation of a particular moment if you had perfect awareness of everything around you. At least, that's how they feel to me. You never disappoint, LSOO.
There very few pieces of art that made such an impact on me as "the thin red line". It moved me in so many levels bypassing the conscious mind. I cried and laughed but most of all. it instilled in me a deep silence which resonated long after the film ended.
Another jewel in a catalogue of brilliance. Your earlier forays into Malick are stunning but you, again have taken his work to an even greater level of luminosity & have captured the nuanced genius of his work. When many criticize his work for pretension & self indulgence, you have shown the complexity & humanity amidst his wonder of the natural world. Thank you, LSOO for what you gift us with . You always bring a pang to my heart & more than a tear or two. But you always manage to spark hope. That is what I take away from every video you post. Thank you for helping us to remember what truly matters.♥️
The Thin Red Line is one of the best films ever created , sadly i rarely ever run across anyone who has ever seen it or has any appreciation for it =/ ; thank you LSOO, finding your videos has been one of the singular joys of my life
@John wayne and the one he chose as #1 was from 1989, so that's a well deserved win for Thin Red Line in my book! th-cam.com/video/YsUm4bJATb4/w-d-xo.html
@@Llllltryytcc It's the Han Zimmer melanesian choir for me. I'm so grateful Hans did a Thin Red Line piece when I saw him live. The whole thing is just a beautiful piece of art. They don't make films like that any more. 1917, maybe.
Somebody once said that you could pause a Malick film almost at any time and get a perfect desktop wallpaper. Your videos are awesome, man. Thank you so much for making them.
I cry. Tears of joy of longing of loss of hope. When I listen to, emerge into this voice that provides me with sustenance after days of famine, I cry. Thank You.
I woke up this morning feeling like I had to watch The Tree of Life again, almost like Terry had something to teach me, or there was something I needed to know about his works. Then I found you had uploaded this :) So very timely. Beautiful analyses as always.
just finished my Terrence Malick binge, I must say, this is a phenomenal study of his work. these analyses are concise and derived meanings that I myself had not yet considered. thank you for the essay, it has left me with a greater appreciation for Malick's craft
With this video, you've set the benchmark for essay channels. People really appreciate the insane amount of editing that goes into something like this.
A hidden life...was the best movie I've seen in a long time....probably the best anti war movie ever made along with a thin red line...but will never get the recognition it deserves ..but then who cares
I just finished A Hidden Life a few hours ago and I've been in almost a constant state of near tears. Nothing has ever shaken my soul as powerfully as that film did. I am truly just at a complete loss for words. This film is the true powerful of cinema; in the power of the universal language of images and sounds. Nothing can compare to the awe of nature and all her magnificence. This is one of the biggest things I always take away from his films and it's been with me ever since I first saw The Thin Red Line in high school. Malick is as much of a philosophy teacher to me as any of the philosophers we've read in class.
You just continue to do these fantastic, beautiful, insightful, deep videos. I am completely baffled every time I watch one of your videos man. Just beautiful. TH-cam has become such a crude, rude, utilitarian place, but you manage to keep the poetry alive here. My favorite video so far was the one on the shawshank redemption, but this one is very close. Keep it up man and many thanks from Croatia.
I appreciate your thoughts on this. For me being on the spectrum of autism I always connected to the sensory stimulation, overwhelming beauty of ideas and pictures, also the fleeting ideas and profound thoughts that surface up in a very organic way. So much of life for me is making sense of it. Bringing order to chaos. I think that in Malicks films there is this surrender of whatever experience it is. Right around the corner some magical moment is coming if you just are willing to see, feel, touch it and absorb it into your heart.
Thank you for this. I was lucky enough to meet Terry in the summer of 2018. He is truly a magical, gracious, elegant person and I love his work so dearly. I remember when I first showed his work to my husband and told him to think in musical terms - to consider Malick's films as tone poems. It worked great but I prefer your analysis as always!
This is probably the most profound video essay i have ever seen, as was The tree of life my most profound film-experience i have ever had; not the best, not my favourite, not even the most memorable ( indeed, i do not like at least half of Malick's filmography, and i did not think about the film for years hitherto), but one that affacted my understanding of existence. I have became one who deals with philosophy( i would not dare call myself a philosopher), at least partially because of that picture, therefore it will always have a special place in my hearth. Thank you for the video. I only wish you could have mentioned Kirkegaard who is most famous for his understanding of anxiety and undoubtedly influenced Heidegger. Keep up the good work. This platform needs this kind of content.
I've never heard of Terrence Malick before. And I don't remember watching any of the movies you show us here. But man, with just 1 minute of video, I've decided that I have to watch his whole cinematography. Every shot looks amazing. Thanks again for showing us amazing these "hidden gems", friend.
I just want to say, yours is a true video essay. Most of the youtube essayists kind of meander, circling the drain of making a point. But what you make is structured and researched, and exact in its goal. Good stuff.
I crave connection that I wish will provide meaning, I endure anxiety but forget to search for the meaning of it, as if I had accepted life as a burden to carry and death as meaningless. I sometimes think that joining the army might get me back in touch with the world or sever my connection to it completely. Beautiful video. Thank you.
Consuming content like this, which enables those of us who might not be otherwise capable of even pondering the big questions is in itself an act of "being-there". Thanks for the lesson.
i just want to say thank you mate.thanks for making me feel so small and wide eyed all over again.thanks for letting me feel awed by all that i dont know,all that is beyond me instead of being daunted by them as often is the case.thanks for imbuing the unknown with sweetness and joy.i have nothing but gratitude
he gives us a portal to see the world's beauty, and strips away the distractions that keep us from wonder, possibly my favorite filmmaker especially if im looking to cry
Oh my god. I love Malick, I love philosophy, and I love you. This video is incredible. And you know quite well how to appeal to metaphysics without getting too corny, which is an astounding achievement. Thank you so much for this video, it has given me so much insight into Malick's cinema.
Well, you left me speechless. I did not even believe you would be touching all these topics: you speak clearly out for myself, for my own ideas and my own perception of Malick´s oeuvre. More to that, you are trying to explain the effective cornerstones of his art by not simplifying it. Your videos are art itself. The art on the art, with an appropriate use of the art of philosophy. Bravo! Just a small remark: let´s not forget Malick is Christian, catholic, he believes in God - although the atheist/agnostic approach is fruitful, it cannot fully explain Malick´s art. For instance as per The Book of Job, it can explain Tree Of Life even more in depth and vastity.
How I came to arrive here so late? This video and channel are like oasis in the desert of surfacial culture. In this time of frivolity, speed, vanity and lie, this is highly valuable. Thanks for this work. Furthermore, it is not only interesting, but also aesthetically sublime. Like poetry, it gives rhythm to meaning. Love this.
Like Kubrick, Malick is one of my all-time favorite 'auteur' directors, who likewise sought the random right 'moment' or spontaneous 'accident' to complete his visual 'tone poems'. And when you intro-ed his films with Praetorius' _Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,_ I knew you 'get' him too. Insightful, magical stuff, very well done... thank you so much!
This is amazing. I just ran into a really obscure paper on Philosophy of Cinematography yesterday and I was awestruck and confused at the same time (despite being a Philosophy major). But this video resonates with me immediately and I certainly love your editing. Glad I came across your channel!
Terrance made a cinematic masterpiece in The Thin Red line. The movie’s script and cinematography is both poetic philosophical and breathtaking. And the icing on the top is the hauntingly mesmerising score by Zimmer. No other film he has done before and has done since reached this level of perfection.
Have you seen A Hidden Life yet? It comes reeaaalllyy close. I'm almost inclined to say it's his best movie yet. Coming from someone who hasn't liked Malick's last few films but also The Thin Red Line is top 5 movies all time for me.
"Poured out like water on the ground..." "The whole world is blowing itself apart as fast as man can arrange it, all a man can do is shut his eyes and let nothing touch him
normally I do not comment on youtube but I just have to say that I love your videos so much. The way you talk, the images of the movie and the short sequences of the people in the movie talking are so well connected. and of course also the connection to the philosophical questions of life. keep it up❤️
This is a wonderful analysis of Malick's films. Many years ago, I was working on a PhD looking at Heidegger's philosophy so Malick is a filmmaker whose work I hold dear to my heart. Although Malick himself never really talks about his influences, anyone who has read Heidegger will see the German thinker's influence running deep through the filmmaker's oeuvre. Interesting fact; Malick translated Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes into English, which was published in 1969.
Much like Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' changed the way I empathise through thought, Mallick's movies have changed how I see through my mind's eye. And now you sir, with your video essays, I feel a change in the way I dissect the world before me. Thank you!
Spectacular work as always. I’ve been looking forward to a comprehensive video on Malick, and my goodness did you deliver. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
I've been a Malick fan since I first saw A Thin Red Line in Feb 1999. The movie changed my life. I've been trying for years to pinpoint and articulate what his films mean to me, but never fully got it right. This video essay is absolutely spot on. Well done.
I just love you brother. Your videos capture the human experience in all its ways. They are profound just as our lives. Never have I ever seen video essays like yours which hit right in the heart! They are so intense, and emotional that after watching them I'm left with a shiver of immense beauty that is utterly inexplicable.
Wow, I am speechless. It is hard for me to find words, to put down my thoughts. I could feel again what I feel when I watch his films, the touch deep down, resonating with my soul. I do not know why that is happening but I can feel his movies, I can feel his images, I can feel the ideas, not on philosophical level but deeper on the level of heart. I really enjoyed this essay and it inspired me and gave me some ideas for my film analysis which I am writing on Thin Red Line for the film school. So I wanted to say thank you for this and that it is great that there are such channels one can get inspired and learn something new at the same time. Keep it up!
Perfect video, you summarized all the work of malick in 30 min, everything you are looking for about malick is there. His works are super sensitive, we make us rethink our futile attitudes in the modern world and give meaning to simple things like in the "Tree of life", "Everything was right in front of me and I didn't notice".
I have been following your channel for a long time and I am always excited to see your analysis videos subsequently coming away from each video more enlightened. I can't for the life of me understand how your channel has not climbed into the million subscriber mark, it is by far the most deserving channel on this site of having millions of subscribers. Thank you for your videos and thoughts.
I teach a Storyboard course and I recently launched a project for the students involving the connective film motif of nature in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, Terrence Malick and Werner Herzog. The three directors share somewhat similar sensibilities in regard to nature, the environment, the bonds between people as well as their philosophies and place in the universe. Your videos on Malick and Herzog really helped the students gain some idea as to the thought process of these two directors. I think Miyazaki would be a very worthwhile director for you to do an introspective on.
The consistent quality of your content and the frequency that you are able to release videos is really something special. Well deserved of everything that comes your way. Ty
Awesome! I always feel alone and get like a weird look when I say Malick is my favorite filmmaker! Glad to see more people making videos on him! Great job!
Congratulations! I am a student of Heidegger and a cinema lover and I was in a immersion of Heidegger's philosophy watching this video by the movies art perspective. Greatings from Brazil!
I really loved A Hidden Life. So beautiful and tragic. I think its Mr Malick's best film. Its so sad it was ignored by Oscar. Thanks for sharing Like Stories of Old.
17:04 "By operating according to our default state, by going through life without really engaging with the question of the meaning of being, we do not just avoid our own mortality, we also separate ourselves from life itself. We blind ourselves from the beauty, from experiencing things as they are. And this is the tragedy: to one day realize that we’ve been asleep. That we have not seen what was always right in front of us. As such the true destructive force is not death or temporality; it is regret. " Brilliantly said. Regret is the singular fear that we all ought to fear most. Not death, as that is inevitable and thus is futile to resist. But regret is something we each have the power to take action daily so as to live without regrets.
A Lament for Peace has got to be my favorite piece of music without lyrics.. It never fails to bring me to tears when i hear it. Keep on keepin on brother!
I'm definitely a Malick fan - THE THIN RED LINE is in my Top Ten Favorite Films of All Time - but this introspective adds more understanding to my fondness of and philosophical curiosity in his work.
Honestly your most profound work regarding Malick yet. It's a testament to why I love your channel so much, plus why Malick is truly one of (if not my *favorite*) filmmakers out there. What you've accomplished here is something I'm sure most would agree with, and that is how deep down I've known a lot of these things you discuss in some way shape or form, but lacked a framework to articulate it. I've often found myself lacking proper words to *really* describe Malick's body of work to my friends who haven't seen his films, or even heard of them. "He's a philosopher-filmmaker" is what I've usually boiled it down to, along with saying it's best to simply experience his work at face-value. That said however, I'll definitely be sharing this video with them because again, you've really brought a clarity to what I and many others have known and/or felt! On a side note, what did you think of A Hidden Life? I loved it. I saw it twice here in New York City during its limited run, and both times afterwards, I walked out of the theater into a cold and rainy December night. Given that quote on experiencing a film in theaters and then walking back out into the world, it was an interesting contrast to say the least.
I don't usually comment on TH-cam videos ,but your content is always profound ,insightful and engaging,Thank you so much for your efforts.Malick is my favourite filmmaker.
In this "democratic" medium name TH-cam. You are proving that one person can produce material of exquisite quality. Way beyond of what can the normal tv chain can do. Because you are not trying to please for the masses. And get the high view. But to share your passion for cinema and in this case the work of the sublime director T. Malick. I am very grateful. Thank you for this great essay. I will be following your channel. And... Merry Christmas.
Your content is consistent and top notch. I like the fact that I always come away with a new perspective that challenges how I previously viewed things. I really appreciate your work.
I LOVE Terrence Malick!!! His style is truly unique and his films are works of cinematic art. A Hidden Life was stupendous in every way. Now one of my favorite films of all time. I cried my eyes out. What a story! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!
I watched A Hidden Life over the holidays. Another masterpiece. The landscape filming in the Alps is breath taking and must be seen on a large screen. His movies are so complex. I actually watched it twice and noticed more the second time. There are many moral conflicts within the wider idea, which is what I recognized the second time around. Thank you.
Three of the most haunting, beautiful and unsettling movies I have ever seen were Night of the Iguana, Thin Red Line and A Hidden Place. They led us into a question of our emergence and dwelling in "what." Thanks for the journey into the hidden cosmos in which we dwell and must discover - that cosmos into which we are thrown and which are tasked to appropriate to ourselves as we share it with community and creation. I'm shocked to see the connection with Heidegger, but it makes perfect sense, as mysterious and evasive as it is.
Thank you so much for doing this. It helped me profoundly to define why I love and admire his work so much. As a filmmaker it's like a guideline as to why I actually do this, what moves me. Malick marvels me, you made it reachable to some extend.
Just have to thank you for this one. What a perfect vídeo. Probably gave you a Lot of work. But Man. As a Phillisophy professor and a fan of Malick, have to say this is beautiful. Thank you for it!
It perfectly catches my journey on philosophy and how Malick achieved to incorporate that in his works. Stellar video. You are an account i'm gonna binge
That brought the real “feels”, my brother. Thank you for making this video - it put words into the experience of loving Malick’s films but not quite connecting the dots between the filmmaker and his films...
Terrence Malick is the third director in my filmmaker philosophy series (following Werner Herzog and Andrei Tarkovsky), which filmmaker should I cover next? Let me know below!
PT Anderson
Kubrick maybe? Or my personal favorite Mr. Welles.
Go for Kubrick, Bergman, Kurosawa or Woody Allen
Btw you are one of the best film channels out there 😁
Yes! Really looking forward to watch this. :)
I will love to see your take on Kubrick.
To me, you're a lighthouse. Through your videos I discovered the works of Carl Jung, of Heidegger, of Malick, and many others.
It seems incredible to me that someone whom I've never met had such a profound influence in my life.
I am forever grateful to you, my teacher.
I hope someday we meet. Cheers.
I think I remember you from The School of Life comments section :)
@@theresecibaka6878 the begging stations of most people interested in philosophy
You should check out a couple of lecture series from The Great Courses called “The Great Ideas of Philosophy” and “The Great Ideas of Western Civilization”. I think you’d love them. Happy learning, fellow autodidact!
man crush
Wow such a great comment 😀
I rarely comment on videos, but this time I have to. This channel feels like home to me. I listen to your words and feel at peace.
Thank you for doing such a consistently great job.
Oh well said, I feel the same thing. Mysterious....
Absolutely
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way.
I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you.
Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
I came here to say exactly the same thing. The analyses are always thought provoking and calming at the same time. I savor every video for moments when I can take in every bit of the pieces of art you create. Every time I feel like I am aimlessly wondering this Earth, one of your videos is sure to remind me who I am and what I care for. Thank you very much for the content. I'm sure it takes a lot of research, time, effort and heart to make and I appreciate it greatly.
I liked this very much, Many thanks! The only part Malick mistook was to place the 3rd Reich German as an evil machine. This mistake is common among many intellectuals, as they themselves were educated on a sea of historical information, many truthful but many also also distorted by heavy heavy bias. At the present we have a completely wrong reading of the recent wars, as the winner has consecutively written the history. For a philosopher to write within the context of the official history, at least the recent one, many folds of cautions should be taken, and a thorough sceptical revision work be done before state or refer to it.
I don't know if you or anyone will read this, but this video inspired me to read through Being and Time, a book that fundamentally transformed my life for the better during the dark year of 2020. Thank you so profusely for that.
I'm actually learning German in order to read Being and Time, may I ask how the book changed you and how you were even able to get through it?
Sometimes, when life becomes too much to bear, I watch 'The Tree of Life' and I feel a little better
Fits the title. Doesn't it?
Under the benevolent shade of _The Tree of Life_ my weary, parched soul draws much needed aliment.
it does the opposite to me for some reason
Me too
The multilayered richness of your scripts, followed by the fluent and subtle, yet highly complex editing, is a cocktail of skills, one can`t get enough of. Thanks.
He's one of a kind
Lars von tier please, i know he is not very likely, terrence malick and lars von tier are my two favourate director, and some times it seem to me that malick is talking to my spriritual/intelectual part and showing me heaven, while Lars is talking to my fisical/intelectual part and showing me how human true nature is. We humans want yo get to the spiritual way, but we are mostly stuck in the biological fisical way.
I will try to spam this everywhere so you can see it, and see if is a interesting idea yo you.
Sorry if my english is not good, i am spanish
PossibleCinema This fellow is extraordinary gifted. I never get enough.
Every one of your videos I feel in the pit of my stomach. After Finishing everything around me seems covered in a golden hue. Finishing your videos doesn’t make me want to watch more it makes me want to turn my phone off and take deep breaths. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos, a source of wonder.
A friendly reminder: Turn your phone off!
I think this is very interesting. It is important not to forget Malick's deeply Christian themes, that invite us, not to accept our demise and nihilism, but to persist in our search for the eternal, the true and the beautiful.
Amen! As a philosophy major and christian it is so refreshing to have at least one filmmaker who's work is relatable.
For me, his great and most unique structure is the story of heaven touching earth, being felt by the characters, and then that heaven being driven away by the sin of the world, the characters then carrying that touching of heaven in their memory and hearts, and that lost heaven pointing their heart's way to a greater heaven.
His characters live in Eden for a time and love it fully, and then are driven out, and thereafter they seek after God, and struggle to make an Eden out of the fallen world, which they often do through love, devotion to the truth, and self sacrifice. This structure is strongest to me in The Thin Red Line and in A Hidden Life, and it's perhaps unfair to call it a Christian structure, as he points to the structure that the Christian symbols and stories also describe, a truth of human living bigger and deeper than any account of it.
If Jesus really wanted to save the world, he failed to do so.
Hellebrok Jesus is God.
Look at the crucifix, God hold nothing back from you.
@@Thomas_Kempis as the words to the song say, 'its not over, not over, not over yet.' x
"If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. A glance from your eyes... and my life will be yours."
Thank you Terrence Malick, Thank you @Like Stories of Old.
I've come back to this video over the years, watching it over and over again, showing it to friends, relishing in it. For me, this - not Heidegger, not Malick, but your video - is one of the most important exploratory works of art to communicate the meaning of life. Thank you
Malick's art is pure poetry. It saved my soul so many times.
This video gets at the heart of why I love the films of Terrence Malick; for me how deeply they speak to me. Their importance lies in the fact that they are contrary to every trend in society. In our worldly madness, how urgently we all need to be reminded "Know thyself". Seek yourself, in that is all Creation. Awaken. Thank you for the substance of your analysis, and thank you Terrence Malick for the substance of your films, and their authentic, almost painful beauty.
Malick's films feel like a distillation of a particular moment if you had perfect awareness of everything around you.
At least, that's how they feel to me.
You never disappoint, LSOO.
100%
To me, Malick's films are the closest thing to experiencing a dream while conscious and awake.
There very few pieces of art that made such an impact on me as "the thin red line". It moved me in so many levels bypassing the conscious mind. I cried and laughed but most of all. it instilled in me a deep silence which resonated long after the film ended.
Agreed. It just blew me away.
The only movie that makes me cry with every watch
Another jewel in a catalogue of brilliance. Your earlier forays into Malick are stunning but you, again have taken his work to an even greater level of luminosity & have captured the nuanced genius of his work. When many criticize his work for pretension & self indulgence, you have shown the complexity & humanity amidst his wonder of the natural world. Thank you, LSOO for what you gift us with . You always bring a pang to my heart & more than a tear or two. But you always manage to spark hope. That is what I take away from every video you post. Thank you for helping us to remember what truly matters.♥️
with a tear in my eye, I must say I couldn't have said it better myself.
This is literally some of the best content in existence. Almost as defining as the films and lessons you are teaching. Speechless. So beautiful.
The Thin Red Line is one of the best films ever created , sadly i rarely ever run across anyone who has ever seen it or has any appreciation for it =/ ; thank you LSOO, finding your videos has been one of the singular joys of my life
@John wayne and the one he chose as #1 was from 1989, so that's a well deserved win for Thin Red Line in my book! th-cam.com/video/YsUm4bJATb4/w-d-xo.html
I think the same about The Thin Red Line.
CYI3ERPUNK I actually met ben chaplin who was one of the main guys in the movie. Just saying. Met him a few times, actually. 🙏
The shot of the buddha statue among the flames of the burning village towards the end will stay with me forever, i'm sure of it.
@@Llllltryytcc It's the Han Zimmer melanesian choir for me. I'm so grateful Hans did a Thin Red Line piece when I saw him live.
The whole thing is just a beautiful piece of art. They don't make films like that any more. 1917, maybe.
Your essays are my meditations bro
Same for me
What a line! What a fuckin' line! Wish I had said that.
Somebody once said that you could pause a Malick film almost at any time and get a perfect desktop wallpaper.
Your videos are awesome, man. Thank you so much for making them.
That is 100% true for A Hidden Life, soooo many gorgeous wideshots througout the movie.
@@DaviMartins99 can confirm this for Tree of Life and New World, too :)
You have to watch days of heaven ❤️😍
@@birajsingha9879 ilr, those wavy like the ocean fields of wheat were something.
My friend just said this when I shared them The Tree of Life.
I cry. Tears of joy of longing of loss of hope.
When I listen to, emerge into this voice that provides me with sustenance after days of famine, I cry.
Thank You.
I woke up this morning feeling like I had to watch The Tree of Life again, almost like Terry had something to teach me, or there was something I needed to know about his works. Then I found you had uploaded this :) So very timely. Beautiful analyses as always.
A very relevant film for the current times.
just finished my Terrence Malick binge, I must say, this is a phenomenal study of his work. these analyses are concise and derived meanings that I myself had not yet considered. thank you for the essay, it has left me with a greater appreciation for Malick's craft
This is the best channel on TH-cam. Every time I watch one of these videos I get the feeling that I have found my people.
As a former Philosophy student, an individual, a person and Malick fan, I love this, thank you.
Terrence Malick is one of my all-time favorite film directors! I am so happy to see you've made a video on his work! ^_^
With this video, you've set the benchmark for essay channels. People really appreciate the insane amount of editing that goes into something like this.
Yes! An unexpected pleasure. A Hidden Life was astounding to me. An analysis of the work of Hirokazu Koreeda would be amazing too.
A hidden life...was the best movie I've seen in a long time....probably the best anti war movie ever made along with a thin red line...but will never get the recognition it deserves ..but then who cares
I just finished A Hidden Life a few hours ago and I've been in almost a constant state of near tears. Nothing has ever shaken my soul as powerfully as that film did. I am truly just at a complete loss for words. This film is the true powerful of cinema; in the power of the universal language of images and sounds. Nothing can compare to the awe of nature and all her magnificence. This is one of the biggest things I always take away from his films and it's been with me ever since I first saw The Thin Red Line in high school. Malick is as much of a philosophy teacher to me as any of the philosophers we've read in class.
The last line there is incredibly truthful.
You just continue to do these fantastic, beautiful, insightful, deep videos. I am completely baffled every time I watch one of your videos man. Just beautiful. TH-cam has become such a crude, rude, utilitarian place, but you manage to keep the poetry alive here. My favorite video so far was the one on the shawshank redemption, but this one is very close. Keep it up man and many thanks from Croatia.
The Tree of Life is one of the most beautiful films ever made. Such a masterpiece!
Thank you so much. Love this video!!
I appreciate your thoughts on this. For me being on the spectrum of autism I always connected to the sensory stimulation, overwhelming beauty of ideas and pictures, also the fleeting ideas and profound thoughts that surface up in a very organic way. So much of life for me is making sense of it. Bringing order to chaos. I think that in Malicks films there is this surrender of whatever experience it is. Right around the corner some magical moment is coming if you just are willing to see, feel, touch it and absorb it into your heart.
Every addition to your catalogue blows me away more than the last. Thoughtful, intricate, and irresistibly captivating.
Thank you for this. I was lucky enough to meet Terry in the summer of 2018. He is truly a magical, gracious, elegant person and I love his work so dearly. I remember when I first showed his work to my husband and told him to think in musical terms - to consider Malick's films as tone poems. It worked great but I prefer your analysis as always!
This is probably the most profound video essay i have ever seen, as was The tree of life my most profound film-experience i have ever had; not the best, not my favourite, not even the most memorable ( indeed, i do not like at least half of Malick's filmography, and i did not think about the film for years hitherto), but one that affacted my understanding of existence. I have became one who deals with philosophy( i would not dare call myself a philosopher), at least partially because of that picture, therefore it will always have a special place in my hearth.
Thank you for the video. I only wish you could have mentioned Kirkegaard who is most famous for his understanding of anxiety and undoubtedly influenced Heidegger.
Keep up the good work. This platform needs this kind of content.
I've never heard of Terrence Malick before. And I don't remember watching any of the movies you show us here.
But man, with just 1 minute of video, I've decided that I have to watch his whole cinematography. Every shot looks amazing.
Thanks again for showing us amazing these "hidden gems", friend.
I just want to say, yours is a true video essay. Most of the youtube essayists kind of meander, circling the drain of making a point. But what you make is structured and researched, and exact in its goal. Good stuff.
I crave connection that I wish will provide meaning, I endure anxiety but forget to search for the meaning of it, as if I had accepted life as a burden to carry and death as meaningless. I sometimes think that joining the army might get me back in touch with the world or sever my connection to it completely. Beautiful video. Thank you.
Consuming content like this, which enables those of us who might not be otherwise capable of even pondering the big questions is in itself an act of "being-there". Thanks for the lesson.
i just want to say thank you mate.thanks for making me feel so small and wide eyed all over again.thanks for letting me feel awed by all that i dont know,all that is beyond me instead of being daunted by them as often is the case.thanks for imbuing the unknown with sweetness and joy.i have nothing but gratitude
This is my favorite visual essay on film and philosophy ever. Thank you, keep up the great work.
he gives us a portal to see the world's beauty, and strips away the distractions that keep us from wonder, possibly my favorite filmmaker especially if im looking to cry
Oh my god. I love Malick, I love philosophy, and I love you. This video is incredible. And you know quite well how to appeal to metaphysics without getting too corny, which is an astounding achievement. Thank you so much for this video, it has given me so much insight into Malick's cinema.
Well, you left me speechless. I did not even believe you would be touching all these topics: you speak clearly out for myself, for my own ideas and my own perception of Malick´s oeuvre. More to that, you are trying to explain the effective cornerstones of his art by not simplifying it. Your videos are art itself. The art on the art, with an appropriate use of the art of philosophy. Bravo! Just a small remark: let´s not forget Malick is Christian, catholic, he believes in God - although the atheist/agnostic approach is fruitful, it cannot fully explain Malick´s art. For instance as per The Book of Job, it can explain Tree Of Life even more in depth and vastity.
Man, I had to stop all of my work to enjoy this look at his work. Bravo!
How I came to arrive here so late? This video and channel are like oasis in the desert of surfacial culture. In this time of frivolity, speed, vanity and lie, this is highly valuable. Thanks for this work. Furthermore, it is not only interesting, but also aesthetically sublime. Like poetry, it gives rhythm to meaning. Love this.
Like Kubrick, Malick is one of my all-time favorite 'auteur' directors, who likewise sought the random right 'moment' or spontaneous 'accident' to complete his visual 'tone poems'. And when you intro-ed his films with Praetorius' _Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming,_ I knew you 'get' him too. Insightful, magical stuff, very well done... thank you so much!
This is amazing. I just ran into a really obscure paper on Philosophy of Cinematography yesterday and I was awestruck and confused at the same time (despite being a Philosophy major). But this video resonates with me immediately and I certainly love your editing. Glad I came across your channel!
Terrance made a cinematic masterpiece in The Thin Red line. The movie’s script and cinematography is both poetic philosophical and breathtaking. And the icing on the top is the hauntingly mesmerising score by Zimmer. No other film he has done before and has done since reached this level of perfection.
Have you seen A Hidden Life yet? It comes reeaaalllyy close. I'm almost inclined to say it's his best movie yet. Coming from someone who hasn't liked Malick's last few films but also The Thin Red Line is top 5 movies all time for me.
"Poured out like water on the ground..." "The whole world is blowing itself apart as fast as man can arrange it, all a man can do is shut his eyes and let nothing touch him
@@sunofpeter2 Love where does it come from, who light this flame in us.. I was a prisoner.. you set me free..
normally I do not comment on youtube but I just have to say that I love your videos so much. The way you talk, the images of the movie and the short sequences of the people in the movie talking are so well connected. and of course also the connection to the philosophical questions of life. keep it up❤️
This is a wonderful analysis of Malick's films. Many years ago, I was working on a PhD looking at Heidegger's philosophy so Malick is a filmmaker whose work I hold dear to my heart. Although Malick himself never really talks about his influences, anyone who has read Heidegger will see the German thinker's influence running deep through the filmmaker's oeuvre. Interesting fact; Malick translated Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes into English, which was published in 1969.
Best Malick content I've seen on youtube. Amazing stuff!
Much like Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' changed the way I empathise through thought, Mallick's movies have changed how I see through my mind's eye.
And now you sir, with your video essays, I feel a change in the way I dissect the world before me.
Thank you!
Its just that I'm curious... and its just that you're the source of those answers.
I am happy to se another video so early after the much demanding three video series you completed just weeks ago. I love your work!
Thank you so much for this. Malick's films are so hard to unpack and yet so powerful and transformative. It really changed me deeply.
Beautiful! You, my friend, are like Malick, doing philosophy with your art. It is so intimate, like whispering in my ears. So intense...
Your videos seem to find me when I need them most my friend. Thank you for comforting me with beauty
Spectacular work as always. I’ve been looking forward to a comprehensive video on Malick, and my goodness did you deliver. Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Just beautiful. This made me even love Terrence Malick more. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I've been a Malick fan since I first saw A Thin Red Line in Feb 1999. The movie changed my life. I've been trying for years to pinpoint and articulate what his films mean to me, but never fully got it right. This video essay is absolutely spot on. Well done.
I just love you brother. Your videos capture the human experience in all its ways. They are profound just as our lives. Never have I ever seen video essays like yours which hit right in the heart! They are so intense, and emotional that after watching them I'm left with a shiver of immense beauty that is utterly inexplicable.
Wow, I am speechless. It is hard for me to find words, to put down my thoughts. I could feel again what I feel when I watch his films, the touch deep down, resonating with my soul. I do not know why that is happening but I can feel his movies, I can feel his images, I can feel the ideas, not on philosophical level but deeper on the level of heart. I really enjoyed this essay and it inspired me and gave me some ideas for my film analysis which I am writing on Thin Red Line for the film school. So I wanted to say thank you for this and that it is great that there are such channels one can get inspired and learn something new at the same time. Keep it up!
Perfect video, you summarized all the work of malick in 30 min, everything you are looking for about malick is there. His works are super sensitive, we make us rethink our futile attitudes in the modern world and give meaning to simple things like in the "Tree of life", "Everything was right in front of me and I didn't notice".
I have been following your channel for a long time and I am always excited to see your analysis videos subsequently coming away from each video more enlightened. I can't for the life of me understand how your channel has not climbed into the million subscriber mark, it is by far the most deserving channel on this site of having millions of subscribers. Thank you for your videos and thoughts.
I teach a Storyboard course and I recently launched a project for the students involving the connective film motif of nature in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, Terrence Malick and Werner Herzog.
The three directors share somewhat similar sensibilities in regard to nature, the environment, the bonds between people as well as their philosophies and place in the universe.
Your videos on Malick and Herzog really helped the students gain some idea as to the thought process of these two directors.
I think Miyazaki would be a very worthwhile director for you to do an introspective on.
The consistent quality of your content and the frequency that you are able to release videos is really something special. Well deserved of everything that comes your way. Ty
Awesome! I always feel alone and get like a weird look when I say Malick is my favorite filmmaker! Glad to see more people making videos on him! Great job!
Me too! Many people I know think Malick's films are pretentious and boring. I'm so glad I found this video and the comment section.
Congratulations! I am a student of Heidegger and a cinema lover and I was in a immersion of Heidegger's philosophy watching this video by the movies art perspective. Greatings from Brazil!
Your voice is so soothing. Thank you for this.
I really loved A Hidden Life. So beautiful and tragic. I think its Mr Malick's best film. Its so sad it was ignored by Oscar. Thanks for sharing Like Stories of Old.
The New World introduced me to Terry. He is legitimately one of the best filmmakers of all time
17:04 "By operating according to our default state, by going through life without really engaging with the question of the meaning of being, we do not just avoid our own mortality, we also separate ourselves from life itself. We blind ourselves from the beauty, from experiencing things as they are.
And this is the tragedy: to one day realize that we’ve been asleep. That we have not seen what was always right in front of us.
As such the true destructive force is not death or temporality; it is regret.
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Brilliantly said. Regret is the singular fear that we all ought to fear most. Not death, as that is inevitable and thus is futile to resist. But regret is something we each have the power to take action daily so as to live without regrets.
The thin red line is such a masterpiece, very few movies make me think and feel like Malicks films
A Lament for Peace has got to be my favorite piece of music without lyrics.. It never fails to bring me to tears when i hear it. Keep on keepin on brother!
Just when I thought this channel could not get any better ... it does precisely that. Thank you.
This video and your explanation is like a meditation on life and being, Thank you for your time and effort 💕
I'm definitely a Malick fan - THE THIN RED LINE is in my Top Ten Favorite Films of All Time - but this introspective adds more understanding to my fondness of and philosophical curiosity in his work.
This is the best video I've ever seen on films in my life so far. Thank you!
Honestly your most profound work regarding Malick yet. It's a testament to why I love your channel so much, plus why Malick is truly one of (if not my *favorite*) filmmakers out there. What you've accomplished here is something I'm sure most would agree with, and that is how deep down I've known a lot of these things you discuss in some way shape or form, but lacked a framework to articulate it. I've often found myself lacking proper words to *really* describe Malick's body of work to my friends who haven't seen his films, or even heard of them. "He's a philosopher-filmmaker" is what I've usually boiled it down to, along with saying it's best to simply experience his work at face-value. That said however, I'll definitely be sharing this video with them because again, you've really brought a clarity to what I and many others have known and/or felt!
On a side note, what did you think of A Hidden Life? I loved it. I saw it twice here in New York City during its limited run, and both times afterwards, I walked out of the theater into a cold and rainy December night. Given that quote on experiencing a film in theaters and then walking back out into the world, it was an interesting contrast to say the least.
I don't usually comment on TH-cam videos ,but your content is always profound ,insightful and engaging,Thank you so much for your efforts.Malick is my favourite filmmaker.
In this "democratic" medium name TH-cam. You are proving that one person can produce material of exquisite quality. Way beyond of what can the normal tv chain can do. Because you are not trying to please for the masses. And get the high view. But to share your passion for cinema and in this case the work of the sublime director T. Malick. I am very grateful. Thank you for this great essay. I will be following your channel. And... Merry Christmas.
that video was as beautiful as a Malick film. I'm speechless; and pray you all the success you deserve
Your content is consistent and top notch. I like the fact that I always come away with a new perspective that challenges how I previously viewed things. I really appreciate your work.
What a wonderful piece! Thank you for the time and care you put into it.
For a phylosophical director, I usually find myself feeling more than thinking Malick's films. Beautiful as always, Thanx!!!
not even 3 minutes in and im already tearing up. There's just that transcendent quality in Malick's work....... just unique
I LOVE Terrence Malick!!! His style is truly unique and his films are works of cinematic art. A Hidden Life was stupendous in every way. Now one of my favorite films of all time. I cried my eyes out. What a story! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!
I'm french and i don't understand philosophy and english but your voice is universal for heart
I just want to say thank You. You keep on giving my introspection a high quality jet fuel of content ;)
I watched A Hidden Life over the holidays. Another masterpiece. The landscape filming in the Alps is breath taking and must be seen on a large screen. His movies are so complex. I actually watched it twice and noticed more the second time. There are many moral conflicts within the wider idea, which is what I recognized the second time around. Thank you.
Three of the most haunting, beautiful and unsettling movies I have ever seen were Night of the Iguana, Thin Red Line and A Hidden Place. They led us into a question of our emergence and dwelling in "what." Thanks for the journey into the hidden cosmos in which we dwell and must discover - that cosmos into which we are thrown and which are tasked to appropriate to ourselves as we share it with community and creation. I'm shocked to see the connection with Heidegger, but it makes perfect sense, as mysterious and evasive as it is.
Thank you so much for doing this. It helped me profoundly to define why I love and admire his work so much. As a filmmaker it's like a guideline as to why I actually do this, what moves me. Malick marvels me, you made it reachable to some extend.
Just have to thank you for this one. What a perfect vídeo. Probably gave you a Lot of work. But Man. As a Phillisophy professor and a fan of Malick, have to say this is beautiful. Thank you for it!
You almost made me cry, thanks. Heidegger would be proud of you.
It perfectly catches my journey on philosophy and how Malick achieved to incorporate that in his works. Stellar video. You are an account i'm gonna binge
I think this is offically my new favourite youtube channel
A Brilliant presentation. Malick's film's have instantly become more accessible to me now.
He is very special. Like David Lynch or Werner Herzog. Very precious. A New World just broke my heart! Such a beautifully painful film.
This brought me to tears. Thank you.
This is the most important video i saw on TH-cam this year, thank you so much! You put the right words on my reflection on the Malick vision.
That brought the real “feels”, my brother. Thank you for making this video - it put words into the experience of loving Malick’s films but not quite connecting the dots between the filmmaker and his films...