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A writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas has to offer undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women.
I’m a huge fan of symbolism and philosophy. I believe both serve a purpose in writing and in film but there gets to be a point where there is an over-saturation of both and I’m left sitting in a theater wondering why in the hell Bruce Wayne is wandering around and constantly drowning. That’s what I experienced with the upcoming film, “Knight of Cups.”
Be warned future movie goers, if you aren’t a fan of a revolving system of symbolic frames, “Knight of Cups” isn’t for you. I can’t bring myself to call it bad because of the simple fact that I didn’t understand it in the form that it took. I get that it was supposed to be a film about the lower realms of the human nature and how materialism is vastly apparent in Hollywood and the film industry. That much I gathered through the haze but the overall presentation didn’t reflect that ordeal very well.
Christian Bale is a fantastic actor, that much I know and for him to take up this challenge that constantly invades the films of director and writer Terrence Malick, is a testament to his loyalty to the art. This movie may have left me bored and hungry for a Zack Snyder film but it also left me wondering about questions which I feel were the main takeaway that Malick wanted to present. Has the movie industry really sunken into this deep hole of depression and self-pity? Do we rely on the selling of current culture fads to fuel our society instead of being genuine? Are we just like Bale’s character in regards to being empty on the inside even when we have all that we wanted in the beginning of our journey?
Once again, I can’t call this movie horrid or fantastic because it just didn’t present itself to me in the way which I had either expected or hoped. I must recommend that you try it out because your cup of tea may be vastly different from mine.
In select theaters March 11th
