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A killer in me is a killer in you
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fixieporn: Dream pad.
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heidisaman: Roger Ebert’s last film review was posted yesterday. It’s for Terrence Malick’s film, To the Wonder. Here is an excerpt of the review. I am going to miss Ebert’s words so much.  “A more conventional film would have assigned a plot to these characters and made their motivations more clear. Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth of his vision. “Well,” I asked myself, “why not?” Why must a film explain everything? Why must every motivation be spelled out? Aren’t many films fundamentally the same film, with only the specifics changed? Aren’t many of them telling the same story? Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. We realize they come as a gift through no power of our own, and if we lose them, isn’t that almost worse than never having had them in the first place? There will be many who find “To the Wonder” elusive and too effervescent. They’ll be dissatisfied by a film that would rather evoke than supply. I understand that, and I think Terrence Malick does, too. But here he has attempted to reach more deeply than that: to reach beneath the surface, and find the soul in need.” You can read the rest of the review here. Still from Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder Follow me on Twitter