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But when you try to do a sequel to a film as iconic as “The Shining,” the result tends to come out like “The Two Jakes” or “The Godfather Part III” or “Psycho II”: a pale, forgettable, entirely superfluous imitation of the original.
The career of Terrence Malick did not begin in cinema, but in philosophy; a Harvard philosophy student, he had published a translation of Heidegger under the title The Essence of Reasons by age 26, was teaching philosophy at MIT not terribly long after that, was an essayist, a graduate of the American Film Institute, a personal acquaintance of Jack Nicholson (whose directorial debut, Drive, He Said , boasted an uncredited rewrite by Malick).