The New World
2005
***½
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
Terrence Malick's fourth film has the director's fingerprint all over it. He once again explores man's relationship to his environment in this meticulously staged, meditative drama about a group of English settlers who arrive in Virginia in the 17th century. One of them falls in love with a young indian girl (Pocahontas), which makes their volatile co-existence with the natives all the much harder. But who represents civilisation and who are the savages in this set up?
