Title: BEST MOVIE OF 2005
Product review: Twenty five years ago I walked out of a screening of Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now' thinking I had just spent a year in Nam. It was a riveting experience and it felt right, at least metaphorically.I walked out of THE NEW WORLD (after the credits) with the same feeling. Like this is what it looked like... what it felt like... to be in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.The cinematography is gorgeous, but it's not 'pretty-like-a painting' gorgeous. It captures the awe at looking at the beauty of a virgin world with un-jaded eyes.Malick is a cinematic poet. This is a tone poem, a concerto, a chamber quartet. This is not your normal Hollywood narrative filmmaking. If you are looking for plot-driven artifice, look elsewhere. It is not here.Instead of a cheap novel, we get a fugue worthy of Mozart or Bach. It's that good...
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