I think a lot of people expected "The New World" to be an adventure story. I had that idea too, but I had also seen Malick's earlier films so I had learned to "expect the unexpected." I would agree with the New Yorker critic, who wrote: "Whole passages of non-event stream by, and you half want to scream, and yet—damn it all—by the end of “The New World” the spell of the images, plus the enigma of Kilcher’s [Pocahontas] expression . . . somehow breaks you down." It IS slow, but I didn't really mind (a Bach sonata is slow too), and when the story reached England I felt the whole thing ascend into something wonderful and extremely powerful and moving. Henry Wiencek To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html