To the Wonder Page #2

Synopsis: Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), a Ukrainian divorcée who is raising her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana in Paris. The lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Normandy, basking in the wonder of their newfound romance. Neil makes a commitment to Marina, inviting her to relocate to his native Oklahoma with Tatiana. He takes a job as an environmental inspector and Marina settles into her new life in America with passion and vigor. After a holding pattern, their relationship cools. Marina finds solace in the company of another exile, the Catholic priest Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), who is undergoing a crisis of faith. Work pressures and increasing doubt pull Neil further apart from Marina, who returns to France with Tatiana when her visa expires. Neil reconnects with Jane (Rachel McAdams), an old flame. They fall in love until Neil learns that Marina has fallen on hard times. Gripped
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Terrence Malick
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  5 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2012
112 min
$500,000
Website
1,886 Views


We have C.C.D.

in the parish hall.

We have weddings,

we have parties.

How long will you

hide yourself?

If I would have known

it was there...

Let me come to you.

Let me not pretend.

Everything that's happening...

Pretend to feelings

I don't have.

Man is in revolt against God.

The Prophet Hosea saw

in the breakdown

of his marriage

the spiritual infidelity

of his people.

In that broken marriage,

we see the pattern of our world.

We wish to live inside

the safety of the laws.

We fear to choose.

Jesus...

insists on choice.

The one thing

he condemns utterly

is avoiding the choice.

To choose is

to commit yourself,

and to commit yourself

is to run the risk--

Is to run the risk

of failure,

the risk of sin,

the risk of betrayal.

But Jesus can deal

with all of those.

Forgiveness

he never denies us.

The man who makes

a mistake

can repent.

But the man who hesitates,

who does nothing,

who buries his talent,

in the earth.

With him,

he can do nothing.

My visa has expired.

We need to face the facts.

If you'd asked me to stay,

I would have.

You thought we had forever.

That time didn't exist.

These guys live around here,

I mean,

They're perfectly happy

until somebody comes around

asking questions,

and it makes everybody nervous...

Ain't this is our property? Can't we

do what we want to do with it?

I tell my husband to get us out of here,

but where we gonna go?

They got all these lawyers,

these big time lawyers,

And we can't get no help.

Even the dog is acting funny.

We've been on this house

for a long time.

You're out at the ranch

up there?

I've been there

for some time.

You told me about her.

I have to look at.

Some of these creeks

and rivers--

The woman you met

at the hospital.

You talk to my sister, right?

Someone you'd known

in your youth.

I'm going over to the...

The tall grass prairie now.

The ranch is going

into receivership.

It's going bankrupt.

No, he claimed he didn't

want to have kids

While he was in school.

She hadn't changed.

So many student loans,

gambling debts

and this ranch

that's falling apart.

I caught you

on the right day then.

Kind.

I had a child...

a little girl.

She died.

My father...

he said to read romans.

"All things

work together for good."

He believed that.

Will you pray with me?

I had no faith.

You knew.

Were you afraid?

My mother says

I'm chasing moonbeams.

Is that what she said?

I told her I'd rather

Have a moonbeam than

The life I had before.

Do you want this?

Do you know

what you want?

I can't afford...

to make mistakes

with men anymore.

I want you to come

more often.

Can you?

I've been waiting for you.

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Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the critically acclaimed films Badlands and Days of Heaven, before a lengthy hiatus. more…

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