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Brett Alan Dewing
Jul 26, 2010
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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.

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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