Song to Song

Where Song to Song most distinguishes itself among Malick’s uniquely rich filmography is its abiding despair. It is his most pessimistic film since "Badlands."

There is...much to admire in Song to Song and much to argue with, including its ideas about pleasure and women. So go, fall into its embrace, resist its charms, argue. This may not be a film to love, but it is a film to see.

Stick with Song to Song, and Malick’s elusiveness becomes surprisingly direct. Long, tense conversations are reduced to a few piercing exchanges. Difficult questions and answers are distilled to their philosophical essence. People clash, break apart, fall down, get back up and slowly, tentatively reunite.

Song To Song is one of the more accessible Malick films as of late, succeeding largely in part thanks to a cast who plays their dramatic beats like poetry in motion.

Put simply, Song to Song lacks the soul of Malick’s best work.

Song to Song is a painful movie to watch, not only because it’s so dithery and overlong, but because it reveals Malick to be a filmmaker far more interested in surfaces than his vaunted intellectual depth would suggest.

I call it cinematic freebasing. It’s tired, repetitious, superficial, dreary and done to death before, by the same director, movie to movie and—forgive me for the unpardonable pun — song by song.

The movie is the best movie from Terrence Malick, combines drama with humor and some musical things, ryan gosling performance is amazing and michael fassbender shines in this movie, both deserve the nomination for the next oscars, in conclusion Song To Song actually is one of the best movie of the year and one of the best movies from Ryan Gosling.

"The world wants to be deceived" Song to Song is not really a movie, but more of an experience. The feeling of adventure and freedom like in most Malick movies. Something I felt was missing from "Knights of Cups". While still not having a straight forward narrative that audience members are gonna hate, just like how Malick isn't for everyone. The film captures life of are characters daily activities, shot a very long time ago.

"Song to Song" is another clunky collage of footage in the experimental Terrance Malik series. There's a paragraph summary of what this story is about but realistically from a normal perspective there is no story. Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Natalie Portman some of our greatest actors are being put through a director's admirable but distorted vision. I've tried to figure out what the hell Terrance Malik has been doing these last few years and I've coined a term it. You know how there's a format as a music video well Terrance Malik how now created a new unorthodox form of cinema that I like to call a "film video" and this basically just a bunch of randomly assembled shots that are edited very disjointly in either a very long take or sporadically quick take manner and then also put over not music like a music video would be but just over these voice-over dialogue or just some orchestral score of some sort. It's literally like watching a music video to song you hate at this point and even when you're watching a music video sometimes you have the theme of the song itself and the theme of the video sometimes there the same of different and sometimes it open to interpretation and there could be multiple meanings to it but Malik's films there is a plot in there somewhere he has an idea of what he wants to say but from other perspective it's just always opened to interpretation that's different to everyone in the worst possible way. It's like looking at painting on a wall for hours and finding there's multiple within that painting but sadly it's not telling you anything directly except I still have to look at it for a 2 hour 9 minute runtime.

Improvised flirting and hamming it up replaces the script in this ADHD film that cannot remain still enough for any scene to truly evolve.

why are you changing your story.. Song To Song The procedure to convey the message has always been convoluted and thought-provoking for the audience but if the resultant outcome isn't worth the effort invested, it turns into disappointment. Terrence Malick is no short on execution but the script, that is not something fresh, in fact a typical story merely retold through Malick's lenses. On performance, the feature doesn't rely upon single actor in fact, each individual factors in as a supporting cast where even though Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling and Cate Blanchett are good in it, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender steals the show. Song To Song has everything on its side i.e. beautiful cinematography, amazing background score, stunning visuals, brilliant execution and stellar performance, except a good old tale.