Whitmanesque

Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

His Whitmanesque free verse eulogizing American workers appeared in such volumes as Smoke and Steel (1920) and The People, Yes (1936).

Five People Born on January 6 | myFiveBest 2010

Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

It strikes me as almost Whitmanesque in its simplicity of language and concrete imagery.

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Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

Instead of the Whitmanesque immersion of self in nature so dear to Malick, we're presented with the dream within the dream within the dream engineered in Nolan's Inception; the induced hallucination or narcissistic obsession that escalates rapidly into psychosis that Aronofsky feeds into his Requiem for a Dream and The Black Swan, and which informs Fincher's Fight Club and the treacherous erasure and re-tracing of memory in Nolan's Memento.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

With Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," sections named for Walt Whitman verses and a central Whitmanesque figure who takes stock of his life in the presence of an angel, it could have been heavy-handed drudgery.

Sarah Kaufman reviews Paul Taylor's 'Phantasmagoria' 2010