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May 01, 2018lukasevansherman rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I don't know, I kinda liked it. Based on some of the previous reviews (especially BiffBlack, 3 below, whose rhetoric and bile is almost Trumpian), you'd think this movie knocked up their sister and killed their dog. Writer/director David Lowrey (not the guy from Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven) and actors Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck come back together after their period crime drama, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," which had a distinctly Malick tone and feel. In this film, Affleck and Mara play a couple, Affleck dies, comes back as a ghost. If you're looking for plot and action, well, you've been warned. It is slow and a bit baffling, but it also does something different with the ghost story and has a melancholy lyricism that stuck with me. Even if you're bored with it, I'm not sure how you can hate it with the vitriol that the perpetually apoplectic BiffBlack does. If Malick's "Balands" felt like the inspiration for "Bodies," his more abstract and metaphysical "Tree of Life" feels like an influence here.