The 5.1 DTS - HD MA track reproduces a sleek, warm, subtly immersive sound design by the great Ren Klyce (Se7en), but I was grateful for the subtitles, because
the more hushed voices, particularly Phoenix's when Theodore is reciting his letters, tend to dissipate in the picture's airy locations — the presumed price of authenticity.
Not exact matches
Not only does that reading explain the fervent use of
voice - over, never
more present here, recounting and musing on each experience with that
hushed, inimitable whisper, but it also explains the unique aesthetic of Malick's films: his desire to capture fragmented but ideal forms of corporeal, natural and architectural beauty, rendered so by Emmanuel Lubezki's superlative cinematography and some elliptical, compelling editing.
The road to revelation involves some of the
more tired horror - movie cliches, like a trip to look at archived newspapers, a scene in which a dazed woman sings
Hush Little Baby in a faraway
voice, and a visit from an exposition - spouting Catholic priest.