The Way of The Wind ( A Biopic Directed by Terrence Malick about The Life of Jesus Christ) is now in post production. My life is now complete.

We've lost our sense of awe- about God, life, sacrifice, beauty, Art and creation. Unfortunately, an accurate assessment of most movies- "Christian" and "secular". Thankful for exceptions like Malick and his work.

Thank you so much for this man. Just watched A Hidden Life last night and now I am hooked on Malik's work. All that you said about Christian films and Terry's films is super accurate. As a Christian the way Malik's tells his story is much more accurate to the Christian life and what we see in the Scriptures. Thank you again man and much love in Christ Jesus:)

As a filmmaker who is tired of the lack of quality art house Christian cinema, I really do thank you for this video. It’s helped me with my approach and mindset on how I’m going to create this films that touch the ones who don’t know God.

The guy has a knack for capturing beauty on film. Some of the nature shots in 'The Thin Red Line' are heart-rending to the point that I get a visceral churn even after having seen them dozens of times. That shot of the floating Jessica was so cool in 'Tree of Life'.

Great video! Malick has been, along with PTA, the greatest working film director in America, for many years... ever since I saw _The Thin Red Line,_ in theaters, I've been hooked. Malick's take on faith is far more genuine, believable and truly "Christian" than all those so-called "Christian" propaganda movies combined. The "consistently poor filming quality" of those movies, I'd say, is connected to their shallow, politicized take on Christianity, with their absence of doubt, awe or wonder. There is so much for the non-Christian in Malick's films, too. A so-called "atheist" can encounter a transcendent experience with the divine thru his work. Love your vids, from Malick to _Ghostbusters..._

This is the best analysis of this topic I've encountered. Really great stuff. I hope more people will watch your videos.

Hi, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for making this absolutely spot-on analysis of Malick, and the problem today with superficially made Christian films! These are some of the many reasons for which I was drawn back to Malick's filmography, after being introduced to him a few years back. It is an amazing thing in this day and age, for a director with such a profile as Malick, to be able to bring individual films to a mainstream audience that serve as a meditative experience, rather than a fan servicing amusement park ride. Fantastic video, thank you again!

Thanks for posting this! I am an atheist and also a huge Malick fan. I get so much from his films aside from the religious overtones, etc.

My daughter and I watch Tree of Life every year or so. I enjoy the nostalgic hayride through my childhood so hauntingly framed as to feel autobiographical; my daughter sees it as a string connected a past she never touched, but is touched by. God's beauty reveals itself. Malick understands this. His camera drinks it in, sip by sip, never waterboarding us with it. He is in awe of this brief glimpse we get called life. As are we...in those rare moments when we stop, shut off the chaos, and just disappear into the contemplation. Thank God for these films.

Malick has been my favorite living filmmaker since the death of Bergman. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on The Thin Red Line (which came out in 1998, btw) and have seen it probably 30 times. He’s the only director with two films in my all-time top 10. Glad to find another fan who understands that Christian moviegoers are doing themselves and their faith a disservice in buying tickets to films produced within the Christian film industry. Think of the changes in both our churches and our culture if Christians rejected garbage like Left Behind and instead let themselves be challenged by The Tree of Life, Silence, Last Days in the Desert, etc.

First let me state that this video was so incredibly well done. I always state that most Malick film's are a four years Master's class in Western philosophy and Theology condensed into a three hour crash course. "The Thin Red Line" is one of the single most profound thought experiments I have ever experienced and "Days of Heaven" is like nothing else. I genuinley loathed his last WWII film as I felt it trite and atypical Western rote "bad moustache man bad" we get beat over the head with daily. I never saw "Tree of Life" but I feel obliged to now. Malick has philosophy degrees from Harvard and another Ivy I believe and taught at Oxford. He is master of canvas and prose. Also, I believe most modern "Christian" films suck because they are low effort. They stand against everything Hollywood is about and who is in control, so they raise a few dollars, get D list talent and make a Hallmark story for midwits. "Shawshank Redemption" is a great Christian film whether people realize it or not. It is jam packed with theological questions and images. I Cant remember offhand but I know there are a few more which escape me. "The Passion" was good albeit a rough watch.. I am not a crier but that was, as intended, an intensely painful experience to endure. Speaking of emotionally distraught, to this day, the "wife on swing" and "Dear John" letter monologues make my stomach knot. They just break me as does much of the movie with Stavros the devout Catholic and Witt the spiritual optimist

Fantastic essay on Malick’s work!!

Subscribed. Great video essay. Keep them coming.

It is my mission in life to change the Christian movie industry. I have written 4 faith-based screenplays depicting real life. Most Christian movies are made for Christians. I want to make movies that will bring non-believers into the theaters and not into sunday school.

One of the best videos I've seen on Terrence Malick's work. Its a shame this video doesn't have more views.

I mean, there's always been great Christian films: Dreyer, Bresson, Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, all the way to modern ones like Scorsese's Silence or the french Of Gods and Men. And there are even more films which are not explicitly Christian but whose themes certainly are. The bad reputation of Christian films comes primarily from that specific niche of American Evangelical family movies.

This video is incredible. Thank you.

Great video! This is so true.

This was a very helpful video, thanks for making this dude!

subscribed. completely satisfied.

very well done video.

Great video! I liked your assessment of Christian cinema and how we need more bold faith films that aren't focused on preaching, but unique storytelling of Christian themes. I actually haven't studied Malick much and the only film of his I've seen is "Thin Red Line," but now you've sparked my interest in his other films. Thanks!

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Intresting video 😊

Creating excellence in every way film wise is NOT the main concern for Christian Filmmakers. They rely on the message to carry the film, but it's not enough truly. Everything about a film has to be carefully thought about creatively. Movies like The Book of Eli, Silence and others tell great stories of faith with also creative ways to show it. As a man of faith who has and want to continue to tell stories of faith in film, it has to be beautiful visually too, because the message is beautiful.

I love malice’s films. I saw The thin red line in theaters just a few days after watching saving private Ryan. I want to the movies with the same group of friends. Afterwards some of my friends complained the thin red line was “Boring” others appreciated the film but preferred saving private Ryan. But I was blow away. Every second of the film seemed to be infused with a quality that usually is only experienced for an instant. One beautiful image and than it’s gone. But watching thin red line was like an extended meditation. Watching this video makes me want to watch all his movies over again. Thanks

I couldn't agree with this more!

If The Tree of Life is the Book of Job, then Knight of Cups is the Book of Ecclesiastes. Job is about a man who loses everything and despairs. Ecclesiastes is about a man who gains everything and despairs.

I have a screenplay on the blklst and one of the promising reviews was in part "...The script has a strong spiritual core, and the combination of different elements, including Alan Watts and traditional Catholicism, make for something distinctive and engaging...It's easy to see the appeal to a faith-based audience, without alienating others..." I'm trying to make Christian films exactly how you said!

Mainstream Christian movies tend to be theologically correct but are almost always artistically challenged. They seem to be so fixated on making their point clear with the utmost speed, while simultaneously seeming to be dismissive of the art of filmmaking. It's as though film is simply a means to an end and not an end in itself. Making a good film requires a compelling story and, unfortunately it seems a lot of Christian films seem to be fabricated by some kind of committee. Malick is a great departure from this trend. Thanks for your excellent video.

Faith is only transformative and meaningful against the backdrop and context of doubt. But doubt is easy, normal, and it's not enough by itself. Doubt is the mediocrity of the status quo, and true faith is the rare jewel. Doubt is normal. Asking questions is better. And finding faith and meaning in a personal way (esoteric as opposed to congregationally or liturgically) is the road less travelled by - the narrow way. Doubt leads to questions. Questions lead to seeking. Seeking leads to faith. And faith leads to truth. Truth is where meaning lives. Truth and Meaning is what what feeds the Spirit.

You should look up the channel Logos Made Flesh. Malick is actually coming out with a project about Jesus that will release relatively soon

I'm used to seeing left-wing people critizing Christianity for all sorts of reason, but none really makes sense - except this video. I'm a Christian and I am baffled by the lack of talent of Christian film makers. Your critic is spot on. We really do need better Christian artists.

Good video.

The point of Jesus lowing himself as King to Man apart from The Cross was so he could REALATE to our Humanity. Malick touches on that same spectrum beauty within the Chaos while your typical evanjelly wants to escape & gaslight the chaos all together.

I love this, I'm a Christian and I love the complexity of it in the way Malick does

Some find a sirt of non judgemental comfort in "christian" films such as Malick's. Others find it in obvious overly "Christian" films, though not as we'll realized such as the preachy ones. There are answers out there. Life isn't always vague and difficult to grasp.

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Despite the twenty year hiatus, he still ends up being THE American Director. He is to America what Renoir is to France or Tarkovsky to Russia.

Terrence Mallick's new films seem Christian and take some of its themes like redemption or seeing the floaty camera as a soul but essentially is driven out of philosophy mainly Existentialism . Otherwise why the use of Tarot or Eastern philosophies to structure your film ?

I wonder if the lack of soul and artistry in Evangelical movies, is in part also a consequence of the Iconoclastic and puritanical roots of it's doctrines.

Terrance Malick Martin Scorsese Mel Gibson Flannery O'Connor Dante James Joyce Evelyn Waugh F Scott Fitzgerald Oscar Wilde Michelangelo Raphael Bernini Caravaggio Bernini Donatello Salvador Dali I'm seeing a pattern here.... Ave Christus Rex.

This video appeared when I searched "why do Terrence Malick films suck," I didn't even think of him as making Christian movies, but I think that answers the question. The main thing I hate about his films post Thin Red Line is how overwhelming pretentious they are, which is exactly the same problem Christian films can't avoid by their very nature. Also, The Thin Red Line is also a bit pretentious, but I can stomach it at least.

It's the nature of unquestioning "faith". The audience for these movies don't want to discover anything. They don't want to be led anywhere, put off balance, made uncertain or have catharsis. They want to have already been certain of simple concepts and have them confirmed with little fuss. They want a bland, unsophisticated perspective vomited back into their mouths...like a mother bird feeding her hatchlings. Those Kirk Cameron movies are steaming hunks of garbage. Malick's just up his own a#& with the themes and doesn't bore his audience to death because his movies are so gd beautiful.

It's about Christian movies get the big touch...

Why Bad lands and the movie with Richard Gere are Christians? The Tree of life has a bad script, hard to understand, a bad ending

This video essay will get a billion views when Way of the Wind comes out, watch lol