Well, ‘evangelistic’ has a generally negative connotation, like shoving our truth onto others. I agree that Malick isn’t heavy-handed at all. Very poetic, as you say. But I do think he’s commending religious faith to his viewers, even if it’s only the highly attentive who will hear.

What I enjoy about his work is that it always feels more like a poem than a structured narrative. He sits on the edges of the ideas that the characters are playing with like a silent Non judging observer.

I’ve definitely picked up some of the Christian symbolism in his work, but it has never felt ‘evangelistic’ or didactic to me. I never feel like he is projecting a worldview as much as I feel he is pondering one.

But will have to re visit.