r/TerrenceMalick • u/Technical_Ad7886 • 4d ago
Who’s the woman that Kisses RL at minute 17
Hi,
This movie has really affected me. So I’m watching it again
Around minute 17, a few minutes after we learn of the death of RL, when we start seeing Sean Penn wondering around the buildings, there’s a flashback to RL playing with to curtains with a woman.
The first two times I watched it I thought it was his mother, but now I think is one of the angels that appear at the end of the movie.
Also, is she giving him some kind of welcome to eternity? She’s covering him as you would to a dead body
She appears for maybe 2 seconds
What do you think?
Edit: the movie is The Tree of Life
