Javier Bardem's monologue from 'To the Wonder'

I don't own this. But this is one of the most incredible monologues I've ever heard, and it needs to be on here. All rights belong to Malick, FilmNation Entertainment, Redbud Pictures, and Magnolia Pictures.

[@Terrybogard851]

Malick, Terrence Malick. Just the most great miracle in cinema history

[@Drrizzt2k12]

Amen!

[@larsjannik5661]

_Where are you leading me?_ _Teach us where to seek you._ _Christ, be with me._ _Christ before me._ _Christ behind me._ _Christ in me._ _Christ beneath me._ _Christ above me._ _Christ on my right._ _Christ on my left._ _Christ in the heart._ _Thirsting._ _We thirst._ _Flood our souls with your spirit and life..._ _so completely..._ _that our lives may only be a reflection of yours._ _Shine through us._ _Show us how to seek you._ _We were made to see you._

[@karenwheeler1534]

Thank you.

[@artinhjollder4779]

one of the most profound movies I have ever seen. A perfect spiritual medicine. A leap of faith into the meaning of life through parallel lives. looks like a sacred stained glass.

[@artinhjollder4779]

I think you will discover the essence of this movie by simply throw out any prejudice and assumption you've already had on essential concepts of life, universal love, loss, spiritual wisdom, blending with people and the nature, solitude, destination, the very question about the existence of God and its ways of guidance and nurture, etc. as we all have. Once we empty the cup of mind, I truly believe it will be filled with the spiritual experience embedded in this "experimental" work of art and get the message, spontaneously and with least amount of words.

[@artinhjollder4779]

I think Marina completed a cycle of intention > dependence > (pseudo-) Love > solitude > doubt > separation > self > awareness. So that she could find herself within her ambitions and illusions, came back to spirituality and overcame her fake alacrity. By visiting the church, I think she entered into a state of submission and saved herself from falling into the abyss of depression, so that she realized she had just chosen a new life only for running from herself (or maybe also for the sake of her child).

[@RemedyUnderTheSun]

People just don't talk about other movies like this; I think that says something about his films. They're not pretentious, they're a journey, and the end of it doesn't feel like anything you've known before.

[@AlexNiedt]

I have watched this scene so many times, and it still destroys me every time. One of the most beautiful sequences ever put to film.

[@artinhjollder4779]

the background music: Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

[@MinamuTV]

This looks like a very underrated film.

[@alexjr28]

This epiphany sequence is the most powerful movie climax scene I have ever seen. Beautiful movie and an amazing scene that evokes so much emotion and thought.

[@kameroncarson9138]

7 years later and I am still always moved by this scene.

[@liveforever4190]

This makes the life of a Catholic priest look heroic, like that of an unsung hero. Sure many have messed up, and horribly so, but countless others are sincerely trying to serve their Lord Jesus Christ. Yet the news rarely pays attention to these imperfect but earnest men who want to do the right thing. The scene doesn't romanticize their job so much as shed light on something we never knew was there.

[@maxkillough7552]

Love this comment.

[@admiralfrancis8424]

>Yet the news rarely pays attention to these imperfect but earnest men who want to do the right thing. How many of those men publicly called out Popes John Paul and Benedict for protecting the child abusive priests?

[@kilolifter9491]

The percentage of men who make up these scoundrels in the priesthood are very small.

[@AustinStorm]

Roger Ebert understood this movie well. From his review: As the film opened, I wondered if I was missing something. As it continued, I realized many films could miss a great deal. Although he uses established stars, Malick employs them in the sense that the French director Robert Bresson intended when he called actors "models." Ben Affleck here isn't the star of "Argo" but a man, often silent, intoxicated by love and then by loss. Bardem, as a priest far from home, made me realize as never before the loneliness of the unmarried clergy. Wandering in his empty church in the middle of the day, he is a forlorn figure, crying out in prayer and need to commune with his Jesus. A more conventional film would have assigned a plot to these characters and made their motivations more clear. Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth of his vision. "Well," I asked myself, "why not?" Why must a film explain everything? Why must every motivation be spelled out? Aren't many films fundamentally the same film, with only the specifics changed? Aren't many of them telling the same story? Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. We realize they come as a gift through no power of our own, and if we lose them, isn't that almost worse than never having had them in the first place? There will be many who find "To the Wonder" elusive and too effervescent. They'll be dissatisfied by a film that would rather evoke than supply. I understand that, and I think Terrence Malick does, too. But here he has attempted to reach more deeply than that: to reach beneath the surface, and find the soul in need.

[@phillytvdirector]

Wow...,those words are golden.

[@GoblinGirl]

Remy Wilkins It was. And it's a great review of a very underrated picture.

[@pabloduran5664]

+Austin Storm. This review and the film itself is a slap in the face to everybody calling Malick "pretentious". This film irradiates humility.

[@terrysilvester4720]

In time people will begin to understand this film more just like they have done with The New World, now considered one of the best films of the 00's. I personally don't think it helped that To the Wonder followed The Tree of Life which is a masterpiece.

[@GoblinGirl]

This was also the last film Ebert ever reviewed.

[@jeffdawson2786]

Malick is always interesting, but this may be his masterpiece, and this sequence with Bardem's voice is heartbreaking and lovely.

[@OmerWilson]

Greatest living filmmaker with no doubt. May he continue creating...

[@tommaccammon7158]

Amen. He is a once in a lifetime artist.

[@Drrizzt2k12]

Every ending of malick's movies are...endlessy moving, i'm in awe in the end of each movie he made. Malick is god.

[@phillytvdirector]

I like to say he is inspired BY God.,,

[@CINTERPOL]

He is a devout catholic. So he is inspired.

[@anshu5151]

what philosophers miss by being abstract in words , mallick like an elusive artist as painted on canvas. Clear water with depth telling details in silence is what human conciousnes yearns for. Mallick has mastered the art of Spiritual projections. we should learn and wakeup from the slumber.

[@jmichaelortiz]

Yes, the suitcase, the closed piano, the sunset...something's dying...to be reborn?

[@fml94]

best cinematography ever

[@outismind1981]

I think that To the Wonder is a minor movie in the filmography of Malick. But this scene... is very moving... wonderful

[@drooleybob]

'Days of Heaven' Once least fav film? What??

[@jasonstack122]

it is a great movie

[@ramirezs316]

Anyone else feel that Bardem’s character deserved to be the focus? If not in this film, then in another.

[@thejakeakar]

watched the movie when it came out ,.,.and the reason i liked it it waz when Javier starts in this scene .,.the monologues its wonderful i am not a believer but his voice and the words are truly gripping .,

[@jorgepereira4377]

" But this is one of the most incredible monologues I've ever heard, and it needs to be on here." - Marshall Nelson. I totally agree! Thank you so much for posting it!!!

[@bernardguynunns5658]

I personally found this film more disjointed than his 'Tree of Life' and 'The New World'. I was less satisfied with it in its entirety but this scene alone is worth the price of the film and what could I have expected when I compared it to perfection?

[@MrJohnkb]

20 secs in I realised the music is "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by Henry Gorecki, now I'll have to watch the entire film.

[@tiberiius]

john brownlow what would I search to find this song specifically on iTunes. There are a few versions it seems. Love this scene.

[@jeffpatterson1722]

John brownlow also used during the plane crash scene in 'Fearless' starring Jeff Bridges and the ending of 'Basquiat' starring Jeffrey Wright. :)

[@blueombre6323]

Makes me weep every single time.

[@1060michaelg]

Just tremendous. Thanks so much for posting this. The birds shifting in flight...Javier was in another film with a key scene had birds shifting in flight (BIUTIFUL---See It!).

[@DelightLovesMovies]

That music is so beautiful, they also used that in Peter Weir's Fearless.

[@nchen8044]

Best. Part. of. the. Film.

[@gavinmasterson3256]

This is what great film making means to me.

[@marshallnelson6745]

I recognized the Lorica right away, but I didn't know the symphony. Thanks!

[@joelisaiah500]

The best part of the whole film is this monologue with the great cinematography along with a great music 💯

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I love Terrence Malick and his films.

[@EctothermalPuppy]

Malick won't be appreciated until the dust of humanity settles. Unfortunately, we won't be here to witness it but I Like where you're going here. :)

[@DelightLovesMovies]

@@EctothermalPuppy Did you see A Hidden Life? I think its his best film.

[@EctothermalPuppy]

@@DelightLovesMovies Of course I did. I can't say what is his best film as each has their own soul that resolves within a person. I love all his films, from Badlands, Days of Heaven to A Hidden life, I also have a profound respect for this trilogy, which a lot of film goers have dismissed after a Tree of Life.

[@tajcee]

Damn, I remember seeing this movie when it was released and I almost forgot all about it. I think it’s time I rewatched it.

[@antoinearnardi4585]

Don't forget my friends, the best masterpiece of Malick who's The Thin Red Line. En français La Ligne Rouge. I have seen thid movie more than 9 times and it's always touching at my great open eyes. What a film maker, what a genius of the 7th art.

[@TheFantastictaco]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but for some reason I teared up while watching this scene. It was beautiful.

[@gavinmasterson3256]

Terrence Malick is like God behind the camera!

[@albertgiraudier]

A Masterpiece !

[@alexlozowski6726]

I am fascinated by this movie.. For those with an interest in such things, would anyone care to venture a guess on the MBTI types of the characters in this film?

[@edbarrett5995]

Never seen this film, will have to look it up. Another you might like is The Fountain.

[@marshallnelson6745]

How ironic you would suggest that: it is my favorite film.

[@edbarrett5995]

Marshall Nelson Aye, it's a stunner. A very different type of film; but you might like Meetings with Remarkable Men.

[@treyblake1]

I have to say that watching The Tree of Life and To The Wonder have become a big part of my spiritual life , they cut thru my crap , to remind me that what matters most is to be at one with 'the love that loves us' and to Love . ok that sounded really baddly hippie i know but its true!!

[@aautieri]

Appena rivisto per la quinta volta. E per la quinta volta ho pianto a questa scena.

[@Anneger]

Beautiful.

[@LuanaCF]

Watched this video listening to Dull Flame of Desire by Bjork and Antony. Amazing combination!

[@jorgepereira4377]

Nicely put! Thanks!

[@itudor]

Best movie ever created? I guess. At least for me.

[@ethidian3444]

The Tree of Life mate.

[@megamatt1915]

right there with you

[@forgottenimagination3981]

beautiful

[@eduardogoncalves2998]

Beauty (Belissimo)

[@illvminatvs3194]

Górecki!

[@ColinPatrickWeiss]

not my fav Malick movie, a bit too ethereal, but this shows me, he must basically make these short sequences and then stitch them all together. He has so many poetic sequences in his movies that taken as a short 3-7 minute segement are just pure cinematic perfection.

[@Flowerpetaleater]

It's St. Patrick's Lorica with Gorecki's 3rd Symphony. Beautiful.

[@zorak1997]

And some of Cardinal Newman's Prayer at the end.

[@moamoa3303]

imagine our world where humans dont have the need to possess (tin red line)

[@TheNewNationPodcast]

The breastplate prayer of Saint Patrick. Ora pro nobis. Thank you Terrence

[@SGTROCK1942]

sweet

[@LlewynDavisS]

The tree of life To the wonder Knight of cups The fountain New world terrence malick Movies

[@LordJagd]

He didn't make the Fountain

[@manuelmatus8711]

To the wooooooonder :3

[@resistwordly9258]

All you had to do was Repent, admit your mistakes and turn from them and follow Jesus. That was it. So start now, be humble, do it publicly, you could actually help others if that is what you are truly about.

[@chantalpetitjean3945]

Bonsoir monsieur je suis désolée je sais pas lire votre langue étrangère

[@athenapictures]

5:06 what the heck is she doing?

[@daaronk]

what a shame about the christ specifity, malick could aim for true universality instead : beyond borders, nations, religions raising himself to true spirituality connected directly with universe and source passing over intermediate stops ... nonetheless i appreciate his work and especially his continuation of the european/tarkovskyan tradition

[@evadwall1057]

Not a shame at all. Enough "universality" in the arts already.

[@DianaTkb]

You seem to be the only person who focused on that rather than on the overall beauty of the video. I am muslim and I don't mind at all, I have my own belief but I can still understand the meaning of the video. It doesn't matter. Everything is in the mind 😄