To the Wonder Page #2

Synopsis: Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), a Ukrainian divorcée who is raising her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana in Paris. The lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Normandy, basking in the wonder of their newfound romance. Neil makes a commitment to Marina, inviting her to relocate to his native Oklahoma with Tatiana. He takes a job as an environmental inspector and Marina settles into her new life in America with passion and vigor. After a holding pattern, their relationship cools. Marina finds solace in the company of another exile, the Catholic priest Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), who is undergoing a crisis of faith. Work pressures and increasing doubt pull Neil further apart from Marina, who returns to France with Tatiana when her visa expires. Neil reconnects with Jane (Rachel McAdams), an old flame. They fall in love until Neil learns that Marina has fallen on hard times. Gripped
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Terrence Malick
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  5 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2012
112 min
$500,000
Website
2,103 Views


up there?

I've been there

for some time.

You told me about her.

I have to look at.

Some of these creeks

and rivers--

The woman you met

at the hospital.

You talk to my sister, right?

Someone you'd known

in your youth.

I'm going over to the...

The tall grass prairie now.

The ranch is going

into receivership.

It's going bankrupt.

No, he claimed he didn't

want to have kids

While he was in school.

She hadn't changed.

So many student loans,

gambling debts

and this ranch

that's falling apart.

I caught you

on the right day then.

Kind.

I had a child...

a little girl.

She died.

My father...

he said to read romans.

"All things

work together for good."

He believed that.

Will you pray with me?

I had no faith.

You knew.

Were you afraid?

My mother says

I'm chasing moonbeams.

Is that what she said?

I told her I'd rather

Have a moonbeam than

The life I had before.

Do you want this?

Do you know

what you want?

I can't afford...

to make mistakes

with men anymore.

I want you to come

more often.

Can you?

I've been waiting for you.

I felt wild.

I don't know.

What are you laughing at?

You.

- Me?

- You make me laugh.

You make me happy.

You took me.

No.

Girl.

Little girl.

Fool.

Here I am.

Yes.

I feel stripped bare.

I don't know

where I'm going.

I return to my apartment

and collapse.

I can't take it here

anymore.

Paris is dreadful.

I don't see Tatiana.

She's gone...

To live with her father.

I can't find a job.

I want to come back

to the states.

I met someone who told me

He'd marry me

so I could get a green card.

Tell her.

I trust you.

I want to be your wife.

I love you.

Walk away.

I thought I knew you.

Now I don't think

you ever were.

What we had was nothing.

You made it into nothing.

Pleasure.

Lust.

Ma'am, if you'll come

over here.

Sir, if you'll be

on this side, please.

You all have rings

for each other?

"To love, honor

and cherish you."

"Be faithful only to you."

"As long

as we both shall live."

"And I do promise

before these witnesses..."

"And I do promise before

these witnesses..."

"To love, honor

and cherish you..."

"To love, honor

and cherish you..."

"To be faithful

only to you..."

"To be faithful

only to you..."

"As long as we both

shall live."

"As long as

we both shall live."

I feel so close to you...

That I could almost

touch you.

There is always this

invisible something...

That I feel so strongly...

Which ties us so tightly together.

I love this feeling...

Even if it makes me

cry sometimes.

It is so strong,

this conviction...

That I belong to you.

Maybe you'd like me to stop

telling you I love you.

I know that strong feelings

make you uneasy.

Tell me if that's so.

See my bracelet.

It's pretty.

Where's it from?

How's everything there?

You miss being here?

It's great here.

Honestly, at dad's

it's so much fun.

Did the tooth fairy steal it?

No, I'm the one

who took it out.

It didn't hurt?

You're so pretty.

The divine presence...

which sleeps in each man,

each woman.

You say...

"Christ said this."

"Christ said that."

What do you say?

And what you say,

does it come

from god within?

Answer that...

which is of God,

in every woman,

every man.

Know each other

in that love,

that never changes.

I'd like to show you

here on the monitor.

This is the area

of your uterus,

and the I.U.D. That you

have in place there.

We feel like one of the

less risky procedures

that we can do is

to remove this device.

And we see if those

symptoms don't resolve.

I think something that

you and your husband

need to consider

is with the absence

of the I.U.D.

Is this a time that you may want

to think about children?

Or is there another means

for contraception?

So I don't need to have

a hysterectomy?

That's the good news.

Thank you.

Would you like

to have children?

Someday.

"God gave us marriage

as a holy mystery..."

"In which a man and woman

are joined together..."

"And become one."

"And with affection

and tenderness..."

"freely give themselves

to each other."

"This ring I give you..."

"Is a sign of our

constant faith..."

"Is a sign of

our constant faith..."

"And abiding love."

"And abiding love."

Go.

Where are we...

When we're there?

Why not always?

Which is the truth?

What we know up there?

Or down here?

We pray thy blessings

upon them

and upon this food

which we are about to eat.

Would you like one?

Alone.

He just goes off

like that.

I don't know

where he goes.

Leave while you can.

Now that you're young.

Beautiful.

Your whole life

in front of you.

Live and do

what you like.

Life's a dream.

In a dream you can't

make mistakes.

In a dream you can be...

Whatever you want.

Anything.

Leave this place.

It's cramped.

Small.

There's nothing here.

Look at their faces.

False.

All false.

You're a little dreamer.

You need to fly.

You should be free.

Listen to your heart.

Dead?

No, my bag!

You're crazy!

We'll get it later.

When we come back.

It's hidden.

You don't need anything.

You're free.

We're gypsies.

You're like me.

A gypsy.

I'm my own experiment.

Come get me.

I'm here.

Where are the people?

They're all dead.

Nobody's here. Nothing.

I want somebody to surprise me.

Where are you people?

What are you looking at?

You think I'm a monster?

An evil monster?

A vampire?

A witch?

I want to break

these chains...

Be free.

Open me.

Enter me.

Show me how to love you.

Why do we come back down?

Things have gotten worse.

In and out of prisons

like this.

I don't know what happened.

I was drunk.

If I had done this,

I'm not saying I did,

I might've, I could've.

I'm asking

for forgiveness, father.

I can't help myself.

If you need me to kneel down,

I'll kneel down.

I want to be free.

That sun is just

right in my eyes.

I can fight, I will fight.

I can fight with my

feet and hands.

They think they're really about

something, but they ain't.

You gonna open that bible

and preach to me now?

Intensely I seek you.

My soul thirsts for you.

Exhausted.

Will you be like a stream

that dries up?

Loverboy!

Where are you?

Love is not only a feeling.

Love is a duty.

You shall love.

Love is a command.

And you say,

"I can't command my emotions.

"they come and go

like clouds."

To that, Christ says,

"you shall love...

whether you like it

or not."

You fear

your love has died."

"It perhaps is waiting

to be transformed

into something higher."

We fight.

Without knowing why.

Weak people never bring

anything to an end themselves.

They wait

for others to do it.

How had hate come to take

the place of love?

My tender heart

grown hard?

Do you want me

as a wife?

A lover?

Companion?

He's killing me!

I'm sorry.

You want me to die? Here!

Why don't you

have them?

I'm frightened.

Why do you turn your back?

All I see is destruction.

Failure.

Give me your blessing, father.

I've hurt people.

I know what I am.

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Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the critically acclaimed films Badlands and Days of Heaven, before a lengthy hiatus. more…

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