 What does the author seem to like to see in movies?
They're central to Malick's vision of the story, however, and not specious. A true work of art owes us more than literal horrors, and Malick obliges by making his theater of war the setting for nothing less than a meditation on the existence of God. 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 puts a lot of shining things on the screen: soldiers, natives, parrots, bats, rodents, visions of Eden by way of National Geographic and of the Fall by way of Alpo.
 movies that dig deeper into life's realities
 movies that stay true to the books and original scripts  movies that dig deeper into life's realities  unpredictability in the story line  movies that show the good in people