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- Title
Love Sick: Malick's Kierkegaardian 'Weightless' Trilogy.
- Authors
Sinnerbrink, Robert
- Abstract
Malick's 'weightless' trilogy (To the Wonder [2012], Knight of Cups [2015] and Song to Song [2017]) explores the limits of different conceptions of love, from the romantic and ethical to the spiritual and religious. Focusing on To the Wonder, I argue that this exploration of subjective experiences of love is manifested through Malick's distinctive cinematic style, which aims to present the 'weightless' (groundless, shifting and distracted) subjectivity defining contemporary moral-cultural experience. Malick's trilogy thereby recapitulates both a Platonic and a Kierkegaardian existentialist movement of ascent, from aesthetic and ethical to religious experiences of love.
- Subjects
KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855; MALICK, Terrence, 1945-; SONG to Song (Film); LOVE; ETHICS
- Publication
Paragraph, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 3, p279
- ISSN
0264-8334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/para.2019.0307