To the Wonder (2012)
7/10
Uncertainty and changeability of feelings
16 March 2018
I think this is a film about the uncertainty, changeability and unpredictability of human feelings, at least for whom who try to live them sincerely, showed and directed in the Malick's way: slowness, grace, tenderness, beauty of the images the screen and the lights, and voice-over. This concerns not only the unstable love between the main couple, Neil (Ben Affleck) and Tatiana (Olga Kurylenko) but also the faith of a priest (Javier Bardem) in front of life events, and the affair between Neil and Jane (Rachel McAdams). Malick doesn't give answers; better, the only answer in front of this is the beauty of images and feelings of the true moments, enriched by the grace of love (which is of course the grace of Olga Kurylenko's playing). It seems like in front of this beauty, the film says that yes, this beauty and grace is worth the struggles who arise from uncertainty, changeability and unpredictability of human feelings.
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