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Title: Astonishingly Beautiful and Compassionate
Review: "Heaven" is exactly the right word in the title, because Malick creates a world that is staggeringly beautiful. This contrasts with the doomed characters, who struggle against a dark fate that is as overwhelming as the landscape. Linda Manz and Brooke Adams are touching as the orphans in the storm. Sam Shephard is heartbreaking as the shy farmer (a very different figure from the capitalist villain streotype of the left-wing propaganda that Malick is sometimes accused of indulging in--he's a far deeper artist than that.) Richard Gere gives a good early performance that lacks the narcissism of his later work; here he's like a hurt kid.) Like Dreiser, Malick's tragedy is cathartic--if only people could be as beautiful in spirit as the natural world is in fact.
