Overview: Terence Malick’s love-it-or-hate-it masterpiece is a stunningly beautiful, profound, poetic piece of pure cinema. Essentially it deals with a son looking back on his troubled relationship with his father in fragmented, dreamlike flashbacks, but most of the dialogue is streams of consciousness or prayer, concerning suffering and tragedy, most particularly with regard to a sibling who died. Throw in an incredibly audacious flashback to the creation of the Universe, dreams, visions, and a metaphysical journey into the afterlife, and you have a genuinely singular movie modelled loosely on the book of Job.