Song to Song Reviews

To be honest, since ‘Knight of Cups’ already turned out to be a disappointment, I had already lowered down my expectactions concerning this movie. Well, unfortunately, even though it turned out to be slightly better, once again, I still had a hard time to care about the damned thing. I mean, as usual with this director, the whole thing looked awesome thanks to award-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, even if they made an excessive use of wide angle lenses. Furthermore, even if this movie didn’t really find an audience, it was obviously a treat for all the actors involved to work following Malick’s unique way of shooting movies. Eventually, one of the biggest issues with this movie was that its concept and ideas were already heavily used in ‘To the Wonder’, a movie which barely worked already, and ‘Knight of Cups’ which was his first really disappointing directing effort. Furthermore, ‘To the Wonder’ had the advantage to be dealing with only one love triangle while this movie had to deal with no less than 3 love triangles involving 5 different couples (Ryan Gosling + Rooney Mara, Rooney Mara + Michael Fassbender, Michael Fassbender + Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling + Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara + Bérénice Marlohe) which was obviously way too much.  I mean, as a result, you get to see some random couple having some random conversation and, of course completely at random, they switch to another couple having as well a random conversation and it goes on like this for more than 2 hours. Eventually, I think the movie could have actually worked if they had removed about 45 mins of random stuff and  if they had focused only on the love triangle Ryan Gosling-Rooney Mara-Michael Fassbender. Anyway, to conclude, even though this movie has a rather lame reputation, I still think it is worth a look though, especially if you are interested in Terrence Malick’s work but it is pretty obvious that the guy needs to move on with something else now.