 | 映画原題: The New World [ 映画邦題: ニューワールド] : 話題注目作劇場公開映画 |  | |  |  | |  | The New World : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 | | The New World : Actor [CAST・CREW] : アクター・アクトレス(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | The New World : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation |  |  |  |  |  Silence is Golden / 2006-01-26
Malick is a visionary director, foregoing all real substance of a film and just giving you random scenes with no real sugnifigance and narating over them. Thats the main fault I have with this film is that there really seems to be no reason what so ever to watch it. No one speaks to one another, I mean I think Colin Farrell utters maybe five words in total (minus his narative scenes) and when he's spoken to he just stares at the person with this look of complete stupidity. A breath of fresh air is newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher who plays her role so perfectly you can't help but love her as John Smith loved her. FOr the most part shes the only part of this film worth watching...I mean, Malick has vision, it's just not right for this film which comes off more like a documentary then a motion picture. I worry about the people who see the 3 hour version he's planning to release. I mean, this movie dragged on for so long with nothing to keep you interested. I fear for Colin's career because he keeps making BAD decitions, but at least in Alexander he had speaking lines. Christopher Plummer was in all of five minutes of the movie and Christian Bale is a BORE! Another bone I have to pick is the musical score which is played so loudly that it pounds you head and leaves you wanting to rip your ears off. If there were a mute button this film would be beautiful, random shots of water in a brook and spiders on a tree and Colin Farrell kissing a newborn and Q'Orianka Kilcher running around like a deer...it's beautiful...but with the repetative narrating, Smith lamenting over how he can't be around her and Bale lamenting over how Pocahntas won't love him the way she loves Smith...it's really annoying and the ending...OH GOD DON'T GET ME STARTED! The end of this movie is just freaking RETARDED! It just ends, just like that, like he ran out of film, I mean, he wasted so much of it on spiders and water and crap like that that he didn't have enough time to shot a decent ending to the film. I think this film a waste of time and it actually made me want to get up and walk out and i don't normally want to do that and I think the ONLY reason I stayed was so I could actually write this review and feel like I knew what I was talking about. I hope you won't waste your time like I did. |  |  |  |  | | | | | | | |  Terrence Malick's Counterpart To The Thin Red Line, It's Beautiful, Visually Stunning, & Poetic / 2006-01-26
MOVIE: Terrence Malick is not a mainstream director, his films while few in number, are incredibly rich with detail and visual language. Only a very few people can appreciate one of his films, mostly because they tend to run longer than mainstream movies and they don't follow the traditional formula. If you've seen The Thin Red Line then you know what a Terrence Malick film is. The Thin Red Line is in my opinion one of the finest cinematic accomplishmensts in the war genre. The New World is basically Malick's counterpart to The Thin Red Line. While The Thin Red Line was a look into the dark nature of mankind and how we destroy ourselves, The New World is the opposite of that. This film is about the celebration of the human spirit and the wonder of life. It is a truly poetic film that uses the story of John Smith and Pocahontas to express this commentary. The New World focuses on the clash of differences between two civilizations and how in the mess of differences two people are able to connect and see the beauty of each other. The movie moves slow though, and there are some parts where I found the editing to be a little confusing. Otherwise, I think the film is an incredible emotional journey filled with poetry and brilliant cinematic images. This film and The Thin Red Line are very similar in style. Malick even uses the same motif with birds as he does in The Thin Red Line. You also have the poetic narration of the main characters, and the narration itself can stand alone as poetry, it is truly remarkable. Beautiful landcapes captured brilliantly with the camera, long tracking shots, and many wide shots enhance the surrounding for the audience. He also uses his "sun through the trees" shot multiple times, which I personally loved in The Thin Red Line and even used it in my movie, Still Life. All the shots are accompanied by James Horner's acceptable yet somewhat flawed score. In my opinion I thought the score sounded exactly like his work on The Perfect Storm. I was devestated when Hans Zimmer was detached from the project due to scheduling problems, because it was with The Thin Red Line that Zimmer composed his masterpiece. Horner does a good job in my opinion, but at times I felt like it was all too similar and sometimes lacking. The characters are all wonderfully expressed as well, and the change that Pocahontas goes through basically defines the film's central theme of change in surrounding while still retaining your individual personality. This film celebrates humanity and is his counterpart to The Thin Red Line, which basically shows the flaws of humanity. See both film if you have not already, and if you are new to Terrence Malick please have an open mind. This man is a wonderful filmmaker, I wish he wasn't so elusive and would actually do interviews as well do maybe more than 1 movie every decade. Then again, the fact that he has only directed 5 movies in his career since 1969 maybe is his greatest strength, and puts him on the list of top directors in the industry.
ACTING: The film is almost absent of any structural dialogue. Dialogue between characters is rare and brief yet oh so meaningful, and then there is the poetic narration. The actors do a fine job with facial expressions and evoking the right emotions. Colin Farrell is great and plays a character who is in love with Pocahontas and embraces her world. Christian Bale does a fantastic job as the man who falls in love with Pocahontas yet tries to make part of English society. Then we have newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher who plays Pocahontas, and does an amazing job with the role. The acting is all emotion and hardly any dialogue.
BOTTOM LINE: My parents said that people walked out of the movie at the showing they saw, which didn't suprise me at all. I was happy that no one walked out of the showing I saw. The Thin Red Line got the same response by movie goers that this one is getting. They walk in expecting an intense action drama and end up at a poetry reading. Like I said, Terrence Malick isn't for everyone, but if you see it with an open mind you will experience a truly amazing and meaningful film. I just wonder what made him pull the film for last minute editing changes and ruin the film's Oscar eligibility. | | | | | | | | | | | | Like watching a symphony, brilliant, beautiful film, best in past ten years. / 2006-01-26
If you have the attention span of a grade schooler then stay away from this film, if you have seen and did not like "Thin Red Line", then stay away from this film, if you do not enjoy viewing long beautifully shot scenes, stay away from this film. If you need to be entertained by special effects or need to have everything explained to you when you can not follow the story then stay away from this film. If you want to really enjoy watching how a real movie is suppose to look, then go see this film. Malick brings hope back to Hollywood. If you are sick and tired of the same old, action, computer special effects, diet coke commercial movies being made in Hollywood today, then you will really enjoy this movie. Sit back and watch how a master does it. Best cinematography I have seen in years, best soundtrack I have heard in years, best costumes and sets I have seen in years. Anyone who gave this movie anything but 4 or 5 stars, is probably at this very minute playing a game-cube and drooling at the mouth. It is like watching a symphony played out on the giant screen, go see it! Malick is a legend and will not be around much longer and like Kubrick he is definitely a one of a kind movie maker don't miss your chance. | | | | | | | | | | | |  I really wanted to love this movie... / 2006-01-26
...but it was lacking something throughout. First off, I think that Colin Farrell was not the right actor for this role. However, I enjoyed Christian Bale and was more interested in the film when he came on, but unfortunately, that was toward the end. The actress who played Rebecca (or Pocahontas) was wonderful. Next, I think the story line was also lacking somehow. There was never a sense of suspense, and I was never completely drawn into the movie. The scenery was beautiful, but I have to agree with some of the other reviewers that the film was a bit slow. It was like watching March of the Penguins without the Penguins. :o) The movie wasn't terrible. I did enjoy it, however, I think you would definitely have to be in the mood for it. | | | | | | | | | | | | the strange & wonderful art of Terrance Malick / 2006-01-25
Great, sweeping, lyrical shots of the natural world. A passionate but respectful infatuation between the camera's eye and the lovely face of a young beauty we've never seen before. Ever-climbing, harmonious waves of symphonic delicacy. And a powerful, labyrinthine mood built of images that court the eye rather than assail it. These are just a few of the pleasures offered by "The New World."
Something to realize, right from the start, about Terrance Malick's new film is that he's telling his story on an abstracted plane and by way of the mythological mode. If just hearing that gives you a headache, then maybe this isn't the movie for you. Otherwise, you're in for a real treat.
Okay, okay... So maybe Pocahontas was a mere ten years old when she saw her first white people and only twelve when John Smith left her and the Jamestown settlement in 1609. Maybe there was no enigmatic, and potentially romantic, relationship between the two. But this is all beside the point. Malick is not interested--and we can be ever so thankful for this--in telling a polemically-oriented story. He's not interested in giving us a dry, by-the-numbers, cinematic regurgitation of fact, or in constructing some historical-revisionist fantasy.
It should be obvious, for anyone paying attention to Malick's unusual filming style here, that this Pocahontas (played by the 14-year-old Q'Orianka Kilcher) is the archetype that has grown out of her legend. Here she is woman-as-land, a rather obvious but effective metaphor. Malick builds onto the metaphor two love stories, each taking as its object this blend of woman and land. The first romance (with explorer John Smith--Colin Farrell) is one of innocence, at least on the part of Pocahontas. The second (with farmer John Rolfe--Christian Bale), by far the more difficult relationship, is a romance of experience. These romances, of course, are what make great myth and great cinema. And like all great legends, this one presents a larger-than-life story yet leaves us to draw our own conclusions from it. But that's art for you--something with which most movies shouldn't be confused.
And how refreshing it is to see a film built from elliptical, intuitive patterns of imagery and soliloquy rather than from a dogged plot or ideologically-motivated pandering. The New World--like Martin Scorsese's "Kundun" or Peter Weir's "Picnic at Hanging Rock"--is that rare thing, a dream you can sink into, a place to momentarily lose yourself in visual and aural poetry. | | | | | | | | 
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