Review of The New World (2005) by Ryan H — 24 Apr 2011
The New World drifts along as though it was a dream. It is a cinematic meditation with an essay at heart of it. We see paradise lost in the juxtaposition of the new-comers to an ancient world, and a long-established way of life that seems more balanced and more free.
The history lesson serves as a platform to essay a meditation on love, how love always seems to call us back to an earlier place of freedom, a memory that we lose when we turn to duty. This memory of paradise lost gives way to a working ideal of love, harmonized energies in balance, the model of husband and wife discovering strength, only to lead to the most modest of climaxes, a simple decision, and the shattering hollow sound of a question whether it is civilization that kills the spirit in us.
Throughout, beautiful images in poetic form, a rhythm akin to poetry and literature, not a conventional structure, defying most modern expectations of what a movie should do, but giving us something different of value, not least of which a few moments of paradise remembered.
Again art achieves.
This review of The New World (2005) was written by Ryan H on 24 Apr 2011.
The New World has generally received positive reviews.
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