Defeated, Rocky returned to the dressing room where Mickey was dying, and still awaiting an ambulance.Thousands and thousands of extras were employed, and crude but effective cinematographic special effects achieved many of the film""s unique hallucinatory imagery and dreamlike visions.The point is, I-I""m through.She has returned from Bermuda where she met her new beau - "this man." He""s an insurance salesman ("That""s a good, honest business, isn""t it?") - a profession that Walter sarcastically disparages with irony: "Oh certainly, it""s honest.[The floating pen makes the number of cinematically-suspended objects come to a total of three, along with the bone and the spaceship.[Malick wouldn""t direct another film for 20 years, untilThe Thin Red Line (1998).] This moody, elegiac film has universally been acclaimed as a cinematographic masterpiece, from the talents of Cuban-born European Nestor Almendros (and ""additional photography"" by Haskell Wexler), with naturally-lit, sweeping, 70mm images of crystal clarity and scope, and artfully composed scenes reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth paintings.