"Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you."Director: Terrence Malick
Writer: Terrence Malick
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Nothing short of astounding. One of the most beautiful, delicate, careful, and monumental films I've ever seen. It's truly American, capturing all sorts of symbols and ideologies and sort of just easing them onto the viewer...nothing is forced or gimmicked, and I never sensed the silly elaborate details that go along with some period dramas. Most synopses use three plot tags in them: a love triangle, a swarm of locusts, and a wildfire, mimicking hell. Given those three alone, I hope you can picture that beyond the historical character Days of Heaven takes on, it's ultimately rather timeless and dreamlike.
What I'm reading tells me Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (below) inspired the visual motif of field and farmhouse.
Out of context, I don't know what you'll make of this but someone's cut the whole movie up and put it on youtube and this is the clip I'd like to show without giving too much away. I suppose I'll just summarize briefly now or never with the help of imdb (because if I tried personally to do this film justice in a summary you'd be reading for hours)--Bill (Gere), a hot-tempered farm laborer, convinces the woman he loves, Abby (Adams), to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune :
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