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Next up is another director profile, this time focusing on the work of Terrence Malick. From his debut film Badlands, to his recent release A Hidden Life, I will mainly examine his cinematic endeavors through the lens of Martin Heidegger, a philosopher who was a great inspiration for Malick, and who is regarded as one of the most influential modern philosophers. Rather than just exploring how Heidegger's ideas are reflected in the films of Malick, I also want to explore how Malick adds to these ideas, and more generally, how cinema can contribute to an understanding of the world in ways that philosophy cannot. After all, Malick was well on his way to become a philosopher, but instead decided to pursue cinema instead, seeing within it a potential that he could not fulfill through philosophy.