Is this alternately dreamy and dippy nature reverie the missing key to Terrence Malick's oeuvre? Could it be the reason for the 20-year hiatus between DAYS OF HEAVEN and THE THIN RED LINE? After seeing this, did Terry throw up his hands and say, "It's done. Cinema has reached its apotheosis. There's no point in even trying to top it," then later decide to do exactly that with the opening sequence of THE NEW WORLD? And perhaps most important: How did it take this long to catch up with this movie? (although that gorgeous Blu-ray transfer from Twilight Time was worth the wait!)

Blasphemy to admit, but I took no pleasure in watching this slow-motion slog (the movie is so laconic that the characters actually pause to take a 20-minute nap at one point), although I will say that now I know where George Miller got the idea for MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, sending a bunch of characters on a dead-end quest into uncharted territory, only to force them to return home to face the real issues.