The New World (2005)

  Another month, another Christy Experiment.  We've moved now from movies she loves that I've never seen to movies she disliked/didn't understand that I've never seen.  The background on this is that she bought this particular movie without knowing anything other than it was a real-life Pocahontas.  She was unprepared, therefore, for it also being a Terence Malick film.

When English settlers arrive to the coast of what would become Virginia, they are ill-prepared for what this new world has in store.  Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) is charged with exploration of the surroundings and natives by the leader of the expedition, Captain Newport (Christopher Plummer).  Smith is captured and saved from death by Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher), the youngest daughter of Chief Powhatan (August Schellenberg).  When Smith returns to the settlement, his countrymen are steps from starvation and festering with anger.  His association with the natives has made him an outsider.  Pocahontas, too, is ostracized by her tribe for helping the invaders survive the winter.

I am not a fan of Terence Malick.  I've never been interested in his subject matter and I fast forwarded through most of The Tree of Life.  I got through The New World but it took three days.  It was a deadly boring film masquerading as historical drama.