Why does the title of Clint Bentley‘s Train Dreams (Netflix, 11.7) allude to 19th Century locomotives when it’s more of a “this is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and hemlocks” thing?
It’s ostensibly about a logger (Joel Edgerton) cutting down huge trees to make way for a cross-continental railroad, but it’s seemingly a Terrence Malick-styled, Tree of Life-resembling meditation about the profound spiritual bounty of big-tree forests…something like that.
I’m certainly obliged to submit to Train Dreams (shot in 1.37!) when it begins streaming on 11.7.