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How 'A Hidden Life' DP Shot Malick's First Digital Film With Mostly Natural Light

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The cinematography of Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life, by Jörg Widmer, does the heavy lifting in communicating the film's ideas.

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

That’s the rhetorical maxim that Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life explores. In this case, the tree that falls is Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer whose piety and morals were put to the ultimate test when his country was annexed during World War II. When Jägerstätter—a real person, who lived from 1907 to 1943—was drafted into wartime military service and refused to swear an oath of fealty to Adolf Hitler, whom he saw as the antichrist with dangerous ideology. This act of conscientious objection cost him his life. This is a film about an ordinary martyr, and here's the question Malick puts forth: Does resistance matter if it is, in effect, futile? If it will save no one? If it will be forgotten, without influence?

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