Error 404 (Not Found)!!1Movie review: 'A Hidden Life' honors a moral man, while Circle Cinema honors its Oklahoma filmmaker
Michael Smith Tulsa World
With “A Hidden Life,†the new film from Terrence Malick, he tells a story based on the true events surrounding an Austrian farmer during World War II.
The story is a simple one: This peasant farmer would not swear an oath of loyalty to the Nazis, and specifically to Adolf Hitler, because it would go against God.
Franz Jagerstatter was executed for treason in 1943, and the filmmaker saw his conviction of faith as one of the many little-known examples of moral bravery that need to be told to the public — hence the film’s title, taken from a quote by English author George Eliot.
Malick tells this timely tale with more of a linear form of storytelling than usual for Malick, but that only lasts for the film’s first hour, which is the first of three hours.
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Jagerstatter film holds important life lessons for Christians today
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December 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) -- It has been 15 years since movie houses have been graced with a film of this magnitude — namely, not since Mel Gibson’s 2004 The Passion of the Christ. Playing in theatres now, though sadly only in a limited release, I speak of Terrence Malick’s latest cinematic achievement A Hidden Life, which tells the story of Franz Jagerstatter, the Austrian farmer who refused to join the armed forces and fight for Hitler’s Third Reich — a decision for which he was executed in 1943.
Malick, one of the world’s leading film directors, is known for Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and, more recently, Tree of Life. Though one could certainly not characterize Malick as a religious filmmaker in the sense that he is out to make faith-based movies, certainly many of his movies incorporate philosophical and religious themes, religious symbols and music, and seem to reflect a certain respect for, even awe toward Christian spiritual ideas, especially having to do with conscience, free will and the struggle between right and wrong.
A Hidden Life splurged on these themes. A highly provocative work, it leaves the film-goer unsettled as Malick masterfully thrusts the audience into an intimate encounter with the inner struggle of a soul that seeks to be true to God and moral truth and pays the ultimate price for such fidelity.
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I think an article could have been posted on this months ago, limited release but a theater in town is playing it. I'll look into it. 3 hours is long for a movie though.
IMDB Positive reviews:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5827916/reviews?ref_=tt_ql_3
