Discover me discovering you
Terence Malick's 2005 film, The New World, is not your average Hollywood historical epic. In his film, Malick uses the factual backdrop as a metaphorical backdrop for a meditation on the discovery of another person or people.
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To tease out this theme, he teases the audience. Very rarely do we see a major character speaking their lines. Almost of all t…
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