fishing

His films like 'The Assassin' and 'A Time to Live, A Time to Die' use fishing as a metaphor for patience, memory, and the passage of time in human relationships.

In films like 'The Thin Red Line' and his later work, Malick uses fishing and water imagery to explore humanity's relationship with nature and existential contemplation.

His masterpiece 'Stalker' and other works use fishing-adjacent imagery of waiting and searching as profound meditations on desire, faith, and the human condition.