When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in clichés. That doesn’t make them laughable; it’s something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what’s most personal about them they could only come up with what’s most public.
Terrence Malick, director of the staggering and beautiful Tree of Life— the most provocative movie I’ve seen this year and the subject of this morning’s write-up at The Millions.
