Love Sick
Malick's Kierkegaardian 'Weightless' Trilogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Sinnerbrink (0000-0002-3330-3038, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-300 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2019.0307 |
| OpenAlex | W2920459636 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Malick's 'weightless' trilogy (To the Wonder [2012], Knight of Cups [2015] and Song to Song [2017]) explores the limits of different conceptions of love, from the romantic and ethical to the spiritual and religious. Focusing on To the Wonder, I argue that this exploration of subjective experiences of love is manifested through Malick's distinctive cinematic style, which aims to present the 'weightless' (groundless, shifting and distracted) subjectivity defining contemporary moral-cultural experience. Malick's trilogy thereby recapitulates both a Platonic and a Kierkegaardian existentialist movement of ascent, from aesthetic and ethical to religious experiences of love
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Existentialism · Literature · Love story · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Subjectivity · Trilogy · Wonder · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |