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A Clearer And More Conventional Narrative Would Have Helped The Film Without, In My Opinion, Lessening Its Beauty And Its Impact. Frankly, I'm Still Trying To Figure Out What I'm Doing There And What I Was Supposed To Add In That Context! What's More, Terry Malick Himself Never Managed To Explain It To Me Clearly.

There Is A Kind Of Sense Of Truth And Reconciliation That Is Non-formalized, But It's Understood And Accepted. Haitians Are Haitians And There Is An Inherent Loyalty That Forgives An Awful Lot.

A Child Gets A Fever In The United States And It's High Enough And Sustainable Enough, All Of Us Can Bring A Child To An Emergency Room. Most Haitians Never Had That Opportunity. They Didn't Have The Emergency Room To Bring Them To. Virtually Every Time Your Child Has 102 Fever, You Wait For It To Die And You Have No Clean Water To Give It.

In Short Form I'll Say It Was An Approach To The Family And To [author] Jon Krakauer That Then Led To Me Seeming To Rise To The Top Of The Heap Of Several Filmmakers That Were Trying To Get The Rights. And By Top Of The Heap I Mean In Terms Of Being Somebody That Was Trusted To Do It As They Said They Were Going To Attempt To Do It And That This Way Of Doing It Would Be Something They Would Be Willing To Allow.

One Of The Reasons People Sell Out So Quickly Is Because Even The Talented Think They're Frauds. It's A Culture That Doesn't Encourage People To Believe In The Work They Do. You're Told To Second-guess Yourself All The Time. That's Where I Think A Little Hostility And Arrogance Can Save You. And I've Never Been Lacking For Either.