 How doesn't the author feel about Bill Clinton?
War and Pieces No movie in the last decade has succeeded in psyching out critics and audiences as fully as the powerful, rambling war epic The Thin Red Line , Terrence Malick's return to cinema after 20 years. But Malick, a certified intellectual and the Pynchonesque figure who directed Badlands and Days of Heaven in the 1970s and then disappeared, is in a different philosophical universe from Steven Spielberg. They're central to Malick's vision of the story, however, and not specious. He speaks the movie's epitaph, "Darkness and light, strife and love: Are they the workings of one mind, the feature of the same face? Malick's conception of consciousness distributes it among the animate and inanimate alike; almost every object is held up for rapturous contemplation.
 he knows when to quit
 he's a self-serving person  no one can capture his personality in film  he knows when to quit  he's a corrupt politician