A depressed screenwriter (Christian Bale) stumbles through L.A. meetings, studios, and parties, waxing philosophical while picking up a series of women and thinking back on mistakes and childhood traumas. Formless, aimless, plotless, and another digression, here a big step back, for Terrence Malick who essentially just reworks and recycles elements from The Tree of Life. ** out of ****
A depressed screenwriter (Christian Bale) stumbles through L.A. meetings, studios, and parties, waxing philosophical while picking up a series of women and thinking back on mistakes and childhood traumas. Formless, aimless, plotless, and another digression, here a big step back, for Terrence Malick who essentially just reworks and recycles elements from The Tree of Life. ** out of ****