It is absolute genius to show her bittersweet, sudden death and having Rolfe's calm voice-over establish her passing, only to then cut to a beautiful vignette of her running through the field in her English clothes, with a revived joy inside of her that she hasn't shown in such pure a form since she was a young girl dancing amid the tall grasses of her homeland. Malick contrasts the moments where she feels her imminent death upon her with the moments where she feels most alive, all set to Wagner's beautiful music that is always giving a sense of continuous upward motion. Masterpiece.
@bernardguynunns56589 жыл бұрын
drw5500 The joy on her face is the joy of redemption. The water she douses herself with is like the asperges at a catholic church, cleansing, purifying, sanctifying.
@PercivalFromWales8 жыл бұрын
+drw5500 Oh, well said, well said indeed! This scene never fails to bring tears to my eyes. A masterpiece, yes... the same can be said about your comment. Thank you for the time and attention you took to write it.
@EyeGodZA7 жыл бұрын
I've always felt that this was her soul, not her. Malick cuts from her playing with her son (I also feel that this is her spirit, already out of body) to Rolfe holding her hand as she lays dying to an empty bed to a Native American (death) who runs out of the confines of the home then back to her: finally free ("Mother, now I know where you live." This is nature, alive in all things, everywhere, all of the time, and never manifested more clearly than in one's own offspring). We cut to a grave with the cross, then the masts of the ship forming two crosses. Then to nature, then a port, and slowly but surely nature: trees, water, trees, water, always water. The emotions this brings up... My heart always swells. Unparalleled.
@dinajara51606 жыл бұрын
EyeGodZA o
@PercivalFromWales4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Your thoughtful observation has enhanced my experience of this scene.
@Edruezzi6 жыл бұрын
A highly underrated film.
@annstillwell7303 жыл бұрын
But way too loonngg.
@thegirllikesmovies73893 жыл бұрын
Criminally underrated
@gutomedeiros463 жыл бұрын
Totally agree
@benlotus27032 жыл бұрын
@@thegirllikesmovies7389 I award it : 3/10
@thegirllikesmovies73892 жыл бұрын
@@benlotus2703 ok
@chrispalm54552 жыл бұрын
Christ. This is film folks. A masterpiece.
@BrandonDanz3 жыл бұрын
I keep coming back to this. This is the most beautiful ending to a movie ever.
@justBeOrDontB75683 жыл бұрын
the number of Malick fans in this world is small, but I'd say they know how to experience the beauty of cinema the most..
@Kupferdrahtful2 жыл бұрын
Yeah well the music, the fking music
@rodriguezsilveiro44192 жыл бұрын
That's so sad😭
@TheSeanMonster2 жыл бұрын
I almost weep to this. Every. Time.
@leapinglynx3 жыл бұрын
This movie is a masterpiece.
@joewhitehead32 жыл бұрын
Words can’t even begin to describe how beautiful this is!
@nectarinedreams7208 Жыл бұрын
That's the true power of cinema. It says what words can't.
@PercivalFromWales4 жыл бұрын
I cannot watch this scene without crying my eyes out.
@HerrMikael10 жыл бұрын
I was blown away by this film. The choice of music, the pacing, acting performances, scenery.. everything. Simply brilliant
@bobbyrichardson7377 Жыл бұрын
I was actually a actor in this movie. I so happy so many of you enjoyed it. Being part of this was amazing
@Kaspar_Houser Жыл бұрын
You have been part of one of humanities greatest poetic artistic achievements
@Mike-oxlong1029 Жыл бұрын
Who did you play?
@musicsaves978 ай бұрын
Consider yourself blessed to have been part of a masterpiece of cinematography. Extraordinary film and director vision.
@socalRooster2 ай бұрын
@@Mike-oxlong1029with no answer of course
@cgtainstudios.2 ай бұрын
@@Mike-oxlong1029 He's just fooling around lol
@lordonard10 жыл бұрын
This scene never fails to move me, nor to awake powerful emotions deep within my soul.
@MatimoreAgain10 жыл бұрын
This film NEVER gets old for me. Poetry in motion. In my opinion, Malik is at his prime. James Horner's the Forbidden Corn is amazing as well. I've watched 100xs & will watch 100xs again :-)
@edwincarterjr70332 жыл бұрын
I own Colin's main screen worn clothes from this film so I.too. never get tired of it. It is a MASTERPIECE!
@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ Жыл бұрын
By far one of the best endings to a film I’ve ever watched. The sadness mixed in with the peace of the situation, mixes perfectly to create such a bitter sweet ending. Oh and God, that music… Just so beautiful. It’s like it’s speaking to us. That no matter the bitter sweetness of the situation, always remember the good times and strive for the future which holds accomplishment and a new day. A new world.
@chrisgrose18788 ай бұрын
I watched it once, then, a few weeks later and I had a totally transformative experience. Genius work.
@originaltommy2 жыл бұрын
Perfection. One of cinema's greatest moments.
@charlescooler5680 Жыл бұрын
Absolute marvel of a film. Malick creates magic in each of his movies, especially this ending. All of his signatures are there, the tall trees, the flowing grass, the running water, the bird flying from left to right, which you also see in Days from Heaven and Tree of Life at least, the somersault as in Days of Heaven......this is so beautiful and emotional, no matter how many times one watches that ending
@saltandiron33794 жыл бұрын
My heart drops every time when the boy calls “mama”?
@jodyalbright51796 жыл бұрын
Malick"s BEST FILM. Perfect from beginning to end! An unforgettable experience. Hesitated to watch it a second time because nothing could compare to that first viewing and was not sure my heart could make it through.
@bonkersmcgee43564 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest films ever made. If you aren't a little choked up at the end you may not be human.
@michaelbruns4492 жыл бұрын
Haunting and sublime, mystical and profound. From beginning to end, this gorgeously ethereal color movie is three dimensional paintings in constant motion, animated with hypnotic cinematic brilliance. Her eternal soul returns unto nature, released free to soar homeward through space time. Haunting majestic music equally effectively used during Nosferatu The Vampyre - 1979.
@fredhoupt40783 жыл бұрын
sadness as deep as the Grand Canyon. Still, one of the most moving and beautiful films ever done.
@kashiewm5 жыл бұрын
I just absolutely love this film. I saw it in the theatre and it is just so incredibly beautiful. This ending scene is just perfection. Lyrical, simple and profound. It is amazing and has stayed with me for so many years.
@davidd70422 жыл бұрын
I saw this in its subdued Austin debut. Terrence Malick's wife was quietly in attendance in the rear of the theater and at the end commented that Terry saw his films as little poems. This ending is the quintessential example of this.
@hopelessent.17002 жыл бұрын
So lucky
@socalRooster2 ай бұрын
I loved this movie so much I watched it twice back to back…I’m happy she got to live a life of joy…he son will never want for anything ..I’m crying just typing this …what a great movie
@go0fy1113711 жыл бұрын
There's really something magical here. The music in contrast to the imagery and choice of scenes is simply amazing. I feel as if I'm entering the gates of heaven watching them play in that garden as the scene progresses to them sailing to sea.
@ghgghgyuhkljjijijui6 жыл бұрын
One of the most absolutely SOUL STIRRING moments in movies.
@MinamuTV6 жыл бұрын
Malick is the greatest user of music since Stanley Kubrick.
@ninecatsmagee83844 жыл бұрын
You mean since Richard Wagner - who composed this.
@joliecide3 жыл бұрын
He ripped the usage off from Werner Herzog, who first used Vorspiel to great effect in his film Nosferatu the Vampyre.
@nectarinedreams7208 Жыл бұрын
The two comments above are equally stupid.
@Jimmy1982Playlists Жыл бұрын
May be the greatest _filmmaker_ since Kubrick!
@evanmoorman3828 Жыл бұрын
He’s good although very uneven. I’m my opinion, the greatest filmmaker since Kubrick is a three way between Spielberg, Linklater, and maybe Alexander Payne. Just my opinion though!
@almon46664 жыл бұрын
I keep coming back to this scene, it's so moving. Perfect in every way. Well done Mr Malick.
@listenup39553 жыл бұрын
Me too. Very blissful
@pekolucky3 жыл бұрын
Terrence Malick is America's greatest film maker! Beautiful film on so many levels.
@emojummper111 жыл бұрын
I am male and I have a tendency to like love stories best of all stories, perhaps a little unusual in my cohort. In my humble opinion this is the greatest depiction of love between a man and a woman ever, sacrificial, heartbreaking and redeeming.
@Trund273 жыл бұрын
emojummper1 I appreciate this comment a lot.
@Philipp.of.Swabia3 жыл бұрын
Deep inside we are all like you, we can’t always pretend to be the Lion, sometimes we are just ourself, and we shouldn’t hide it...👍🏻
@leloupdessteppes32282 жыл бұрын
This is the best love story ever told in cinema. Its genuine and neither fake or corny.
@Kaspar_Houser Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this comment, feeling less alone now
@Silver54ful11 жыл бұрын
From 1:49-2:01 as horrible as it is to watch because we know what her fate will be. I see a small silver linning. His anguish as he holds her hand and as she gently strokes his hair the image of true love! They had a short but beautiful life together. She left this world knowing how much love he had for her and he will raise their son with compassion and confidence.
@jauregi27268 жыл бұрын
Peace and sadness merge perfectly on this scene. Malick´s talent at its best...
@98bigbutt13 жыл бұрын
This movie is so silent,poetic and philosophical all at once at the same time.
@gregvincent58216 жыл бұрын
These final moments of this film convey such an aching sense of loss.
@lightningjem31329 жыл бұрын
being a native myself i really enjoy this movie even if it has a sad ending
@Bertaut2 жыл бұрын
Pure cinema. Absolute perfection.
@TheEsmeT12 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch this movie I cry, and cry. Even watching this video. I don't normally do so, but it's such a beautiful movie. Unfortunately not many people know about this true masterpiece. The music, the acting...it's just 10 out of 10! :-)
@Spenceyboi898 жыл бұрын
Something about this whole scene that makes me want to write a novel of my own
@Steamforger4 жыл бұрын
Any progress on the draft?
@Spenceyboi894 жыл бұрын
I tried but I'm a single dad with a baby atm so finding time is hard lol!
@Steamforger4 жыл бұрын
@@Spenceyboi89 no sweat, that's a lot of responsibility. Hope it's all going well for you both!
@fictitiousfictitious89643 жыл бұрын
Big talk. Just do it
@hkchrism3 жыл бұрын
@@Spenceyboi89 Do it
@venedenn12 жыл бұрын
Such a masterpiece of a movie. I also loved the ending credits roll as the camera moves east to west over a somewhat primitive engraving of the North American continent. The background sound of birds and insects is enchanting as well
@plumeria6611 жыл бұрын
"Mother, now I know where you live..."
@robkenway8524 жыл бұрын
What does this refer to?
@plumeria664 жыл бұрын
Rob Kenway Her mother died earlier. And now she knows what it’s like to be in heaven.
@robkenway8524 жыл бұрын
@@plumeria66 Thankyou, a truly beautiful movie.
@AngelofMusic044 жыл бұрын
@@plumeria66 Not just her mother, but Mother Earth itself. Through the inevitability of her death, she's finally realized the answers to her many questions throughout her life.
@TheRedRaven_3 жыл бұрын
These words have such a strong meaning
@squamish424412 жыл бұрын
So sad that Pocohontas died far from home and so young. I like to think the last scene suggests Pocohontas 'returned' home after she died.
@greggrimer14283 жыл бұрын
Died in Gravesend Kent.
@NenadlPopovic3 жыл бұрын
I also thought she died on her voyage back to US, not in England
@davidbohon20913 жыл бұрын
You can never go home
@plumeria662 жыл бұрын
Home? America was not her home anymore after the colonization.
@rodriguezsilveiro44192 жыл бұрын
But was buried on england
@21Poon12 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite films ever. I cried so much when she leaves Passion (John Smith) for real love (her husband)... Wonderful.
@go0fy111378 жыл бұрын
This form of stylish just leaves me both meditative and at a complete standstill. I felt this way with The Thin Red Line as well. Malick brings something so unique and different to the table that some enjoy and some don't. As unconventional as he is, I truly find him a deep, deep visionary. You either hate these movies or love them with no in between. I get goose bumps from this final scene.
@amberh.28107 жыл бұрын
I always cry in the ending. this movie is so emotional and great!
@musicsaves977 жыл бұрын
It's hard not to be moved by a movie that captures the struggle of the human condition so well.
@Veritasfuria11 жыл бұрын
The ending is of this film is truly beautiful! The love, the music, nature. Simply amazing!!!
@saiguusama11 жыл бұрын
one of my most favourite films, and yeah, the best ending I've ever seen. Every scene infused with love, that's what it is
@drtr9510 жыл бұрын
Thanks you, Mike. The greatest living film director. Any 4 minutes of his films could prove this, but this is a particularly excellent choice.
@mglegend9 жыл бұрын
drtr95 You're very welcome! It's been almost four years since I've posted this and I come back to it from time to time. I still think it's one of the most beautiful sequences in recent film history. I'm always moved by the cut and then the shot that shows her hugging her child just as Wagner's music begins to emerge. It's a breathtaking moment of maternal solace that speaks volumes about this extraordinary woman... the "mother" of our country as she's been called.
@Lorien372075 жыл бұрын
+Mike Geraghty Jr "mother of our country"... says who...?
@BD-qc8zz7 жыл бұрын
so few words and yet so much to be understood from these images. it's a magical and yet simple film. I don't know how you combine these two without being pretentious and grandiose. he's a great director. I got goosebumps on my arms just watching this scene. this is why I want to get into directing. I want to create magic like this.
@shayekisitu3 жыл бұрын
This movie is a masterpiece. Bravo Terrence Malick. 👌🏻
@ChromeMan045 ай бұрын
Salaam
@moamoa33033 жыл бұрын
Terrence malick you don’t watch a movie but you watch a dream
@moamoa33035 жыл бұрын
the day I leave this crazy world and close my eyes for the last time, I hope I hear something so beautiful so powerful and like the valkyrie enter a new world
@ninecatsmagee83844 жыл бұрын
It's not the valkyrie, but the gods entering Valhalla over the Rainbow Bridge.
@user-wq2sk3ts3d2 жыл бұрын
Malick IS the perfection ❤️
@Terrybogard8519 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece...
@freshbrewedasmr337810 жыл бұрын
Love the way they shot this film
@StrangeSmarties8 жыл бұрын
ive visited pocahontas memorial in gravesend and its so amazing seeing her life in a film and knowing she was real it never ceases to make me emotional
@rodriguezsilveiro44192 жыл бұрын
The grind was incended no?
@geekthegirl69615 жыл бұрын
Never cared for any of Terrence Mallick’s films, but oddly enough this one is one of my all time favorite movies. So beautiful.
@michaellandon84443 жыл бұрын
Pure poetry
@charlesfenwick6554 Жыл бұрын
A very great film
@thedarkknight903211 ай бұрын
too long though, I watched the extended cut which was almost 3 hours long
@mitrairanii939811 ай бұрын
The minute she died her spirit was freed she went back to her ancestral ways , it’s so bittersweet
@bryanmatheny77937 жыл бұрын
This is the best ending scene in all of film.
@indigobliss1085 ай бұрын
The awe , beauty and poetry of malick and chivo. 🎬🪻🪻🌲🦬🦢
@kellylujan46872 ай бұрын
I could only dream of someone loving me as much as Christian Bale made it look. Amazing actor... beautiful perspective of Pocahontas.
@JESUSSAVES01110 жыл бұрын
this is the best version i have ever heard of the prelude to the Das Rheingold opera by Richard Wagner.
@ToxicTurtleIsMad Жыл бұрын
Its not. Georg Soltis version is the undisputed best one.
@grantbrando86412 жыл бұрын
My favorite Thanksgiving movie. So beautiful.
@Mrfroufrou0912 жыл бұрын
Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful films ever made. Terence Mallick is a genius.
@john1728673 жыл бұрын
This movie transcends flesh and blood to the wonders of the spiritual realm.
@tbthomas51178 жыл бұрын
When I watch that final shot of the towering fir tree, and the music has faded, leaving only the sound of water rushing towards the sea, I'm reminded of the last few stanzas of "The Great Gatsby", as Gatsby's friend watches night fall slowly over Manhattan. As I reread them now, and think of all that has transpired in just four swift centuries, it's almost as if Fitzgerald was writing not only Gatsby's epitaph, but that of our entire miraculous species... _I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive. One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn’t investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over._ _On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand._ _Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder._ _And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night._ _Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning_ -- _So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past._ (F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby")
@StrangeSmarties8 жыл бұрын
love it so much
@moamoa33035 жыл бұрын
men what a disgusting thought you have..we talk her about miracle in life the greatness and mysteries of the soul and you bring here gatsby ??????
@StukeSowle11 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest final scenes ever!
@oldmoviemusic5 жыл бұрын
Exquisite. This scene has always stayed with me.
@nigeljones984910 ай бұрын
The way this scene initially shows the death from the perspective of the child, suddenly having his mother disappearing mid game, and then breaks into Pochahontas’ exuberant return to nature, is just stunning. I also found it deeply moving.
@JESUSSAVES01111 жыл бұрын
Terrence Malick always knows what music blends perfectly at what moment.
@VallaMusic10 жыл бұрын
transcendent film making
@paulr5609 жыл бұрын
A scene like this is what Malick is always trying to achieve. Personally I think this is his best movie after the long break...I know most don't agree but I thought this one blended nature, the self-reflection and a coherent story more than any of his recent films.
@mr.makeit40373 жыл бұрын
No doubt about it. Extremely amazing work here!
@01hore4 жыл бұрын
this movie is so dreamlike and calming to watch, almost like using drugs
@Mazunteful11 жыл бұрын
How the hell I have not seen this movie yet! This is so beautiful!
@rodriguezsilveiro441911 ай бұрын
The first time 9 years ago I felt impacted why her? Life it's so unfear. She died also too far away of her family and buried on England, far away of america
@mglegend11 жыл бұрын
"Das Rheingold" by Wagner - this version is by Edo de Waart and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
@goldenboy26743 жыл бұрын
When a movie scene like this conveys so much emotion , then you know the filmaker is a master of his craft. Another scene that i highly highly recommend is from Akira Kurosawa's dreams. The last part "the village of the watermills" after the wandering tourist witnesses the funeral proscecion. This last scene when he leaves the village and the camera lingers on the river while the hauntingly beautifull caucasian sketches is playing always gets me.
@mohammadtausifrafi8277 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful, beautiful cinamatography.
@AlwaysOn2Sumthing8 ай бұрын
i was fourteen when this movie came out and i went to see it with my dad. i remember the movie ending and us leaving the theater and driving home and both of us being silent. we were truly gobsmacked by how beautiful it was.
@j0o235 Жыл бұрын
Remembering my mother ann and the times we played hide and seek in are garden long ago in them golden years of my childhood and has i see her touch the tree of life she is now to me a wild spirit and has free has a bird to dance endlessly were and ever her spirit desides to take her and has i look into a new dawn and into a new life i look back to were she lays with great sadness but with great joy for i no now were she lives.
@Visinski4 жыл бұрын
Ah this is a master piece
@BlackRaven021113 жыл бұрын
this movie always manages to turn me into a crying baby, its so heartbreaking and beautiful
@tonytune43422 жыл бұрын
Heartbreaking to know that Pocahontas died in England , never again to see her beloved Virginia .
@armenianeric3 жыл бұрын
Greatest montage I've ever seen.
@mariamkakulia21104 жыл бұрын
ულამაზესი სცენებია 💞 საოცარი მუსიკის ფონზე 👌
@UniqueGeekFreak11 жыл бұрын
i absolutely agree with you!! such beauty and profoundness, love how everything speaks for itself, all the camera angles, the shots and expressions, no need for any talk :)
@allanlomas51336 күн бұрын
She kills the role I don't understand why she didn't get better parts after this. What a performance.
@frankmessely215610 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film. Splendid use of Wagner. So full of promise.
@HanzSygnal12 жыл бұрын
This scene made Ebert call Malick a "Visionary"
@aamirali92248 жыл бұрын
when Cooper listens to the sounds of nature in the Saturn flyby scene (from the movie Interstellar). This scene from this movie is what it reminds me of.
@thomasn38823 жыл бұрын
Who's chopping onions in here?
@ryanbry7740 Жыл бұрын
This is the most profound film ending ever, 2001 be damned.
@misschanelxxx4 жыл бұрын
One of my fave movies of all time still, both Collin and Christian showed her love and learning in different parts of her life
@plugs31311 жыл бұрын
Love the music to this scene, haunting and triumphant all at once...
@theresapratt52132 жыл бұрын
I thought I was weird for finding this ending so captivatingly powerful...the spiritual and mystic bridge between live and death is not a far distance. As a mother we all wish to be there to witness and attest to your child becoming an adult. But is not up to us. It is in the hands of destiny...we are just a vessel for the divine act of creation. And at the end of that blessed act Death sits waiting for comfort and relieve us. May I have given all the Love I could and served as Best I could. Remember me as kind and helpful. And have pity and mercy for my faults. Oh! Come Sweet Death Be Thee Gentle Yet Unyielding My Work Is Accomplished.
@frederiklaureys15167 жыл бұрын
MAGNIFIQUE et EXCELLENCE....
@doodlebobthe1st3135 күн бұрын
James Horner's music is just great for this film. Today is the ninth year of his death. RIP. Terrence Malick made the right choice of getting to write the score for this film.
@junesilvermanb29792 жыл бұрын
Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (born: February 11, 1990) is an American actress, singer, and activist. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's 2005 film The New World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). In 2020, she starred in a recurring role on the Paramount television series Yellowstone.
@Theater-qv5zp4 жыл бұрын
true masterpiece
@prueba10115 жыл бұрын
Beutiful movie ...is poetry
@squamish424411 жыл бұрын
A Terrence Malick film was the last film Roger Ebert reviewed. Considering Malick's themes, it seems appropriate.