In Search of Perfection
Katy Karpfinger on Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven:
Capturing the perfect image on film is at the same time a moment’s work and a painstaking task taking much planning and 
patience. The light has to be just right, the location of the camera has to be carefully selected, the camera precisely set up. This is true of both the still and the moving image and yet I have seen few films in which the photographic quality is so clear as in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven. Press pause on the DVD player at almost any moment and there you have a perfect image; beautiful, meaningful, perfectly lit…
