The new film by Terrence Malick "a miracle" - an abstract story about trying to love and faith, played out four big Hollywood actors (Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams). She did not repeat the success of the previous work of the director, the owner of the Cannes branch in 2011 "Tree of Life": the participant main competition in Venice, "a miracle" was a prize SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication).
Lovers Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and Neil (Ben Affleck) travel to Normandy, walk around Paris and then go to America, to him. All this time the girl, filled with love, enthusiasm flutters. We do not hear their names, sounds, only one - the name of his daughter Marina, Tatiana (Tatiana Chilin) that, along with remarks on the Russian talks about the origin of the main character.
In Oklahoma, it still can not inhabit any empty house, or to become husband and wife, or get rid of the feeling that "something is missing", and Neil does not ask his beloved to stay when her visa expires. Time later, Marina returned to him, and they still are married, but she omits wings. The reality of it has long been gathered filters perceives his soul, but the rainbow world of dreams turn gray. Resorting to the main weapon - sensuality, it can not save what has not emerged, which never happened. Must be able to perform actions and take responsibility for them - so says Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), whose story about finding God develops in parallel. Heroes is stopped halfway down the stairs, a loss of wave unanswered questions. How to love another? What is love? How to have faith? How to approach, in fact, a miracle, which, as the Lord has promised us, perhaps?
These questions are in the monologues women (Marina and Jane, the heroine Rachel McAdams), in sermons father Quintana. On the one hand, the words of Scripture second thoughts heroes, on the other - do not explain anything. Transformed into a prayer in which the wishes and aspirations of important words. Plea of the possibility to fill the inner emptiness poured into the ears steppe in water ripples in the sky, in the hands, hair, in rare phrases of the poor and the elderly. Formally, it is addressed to God, but the characters do not, they do not feel it, and words like beautiful shots, landscapes, do not make sense, but keep faith in him (meaning) presence.
The film "a miracle" was mercilessly criticized: for bad script (say it, and was not at all) for repetitive directorial techniques for pretentious phrases.
But no matter how long may seem frames with beautiful scenery, a herd of horses or herd of buffalo, as it may sound hackneyed metaphor for release in the form of birds fly up, no matter how ambitious or were preaching in mosaic arches of the church and classical music as an accompaniment of images, the film feels and beautiful. And how absurd may seem flutter heroine Olga Kurylenko in them - to the last frame - an attempt to be heard in the infinity of existence.