Synopsis: Alienation, love and murder in 1950's midwest
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
Date: 1974
How viewed: Already in my DVD collection
Rating: 3/5
David Meyer says:
[a study of] the loneliness of the American frontier experience. Wide-screen deep-focus panoramas of magnificent open country that should represent freedom, but instead inspires only dread.
I say:
I expected more of this film, the scenery was indeed magnificent, but Sheen was too nice, the background plinky-plonky music (Carl Orff??) was distracting (surely 1950's American could have provided a great soundtrack), and I wasn't convinced by the running commentary - without it the sparse dialogue would have echoed the wide open prairies.
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