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Meaning of Life

In Malick’s latest, the vision is lovely but not easy to understand

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 03, 2011

The film is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

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