The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life.
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
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Beyond a waste of timeThere should be a warning telling movie goers that this technically is not a movie. It's a 2 hour waste of time, made no sense and seemed as though it was a pathetic attempt to make art or some nouveau film. Sucked beyond description..Score: 1/5
Be aware of drowsiness...Cinematography and sound effects were amazing, but the script lacked structure..Score: 2/5
Best movie I've ever seenThis movie speaks to me. It's like Terrence malick was making a movie about my life.Score: 5/5
What was THAT?This is a prime example of the Trailer not giving a clear depiction of the movie. The trailer looks great and depicts a troubling life with a journey in search of peace and contentment perhaps. The movie itself is just weird with no story line that can be followed and 20 or more minutes of mystical imagery on the screen showing nothing but images of space or whatever. VERY DISAPPOINTING. Ended up turning it off after 25 minutes, 3 adults watching it all differing generations and all universal in the NEED to turn it OFF. Sorry for the harsh judgement, but also sorry we tuned into The Tree of Life..Score: 1/5
It really depends on perspective...Okay, first, I'm going to establish a few things I think will help you understand my review: 1. Though you can say plenty of objective things about any given movie, everyone has a different preference for where lines should be drawn. How long before something (a shot, a scene, an entire film) becomes too long? When does clear become stupidly-obvious, and when does indirect or implicit cross the line and become too garbled? 2. Different movies play to different personality types. My personal favorite film, for example, is "Synecdoche, New York," a film I've noticed usually only speaks very strongly to people who've dealt with depression. To other people, it just feels like an intellectual puzzle with no emotional basis. 3. There are cultural norms regarding subject matter and style/presentation outside of which most films usually won't be too commercially-successful. Films dealing with romance and simple, external conflicts are easy aces because they deal with largely-universal issues. Films dealing with existential or intenself-psychological issues are usually made for a smaller target audience, because those are things that - to no one's discredit - are just not of interest to everyone. So "Tree of Life" is way outside the norm, and that's not inherently good or bad; it just means that it's going to speak to an experience not everyone has had. As it happens, it spoke very clearly to me. For example, there's one scene in the beginning where we have ten or fifteen minutes of shots showing various celestial events. A lot of people in the theater I was at, as well as a ton of reviewers, basically said that sequence was just a pile of random images. I actually saw it as pretty straightforward: We start with the galaxy, we zoom in until we can see stars and planets forming. We zoom in further on one particular planet (Earth). We watch the planet's crust cool, we see oceans forming, we see microorganisms beginning to develop and evolve into rudimentary forms of life (jellyfish are the first non-microscopic organisms we see), then to dinosaurs, then to humans. And in the way he presents that entire sequence - most obviously the sequence with the dinosaur having its life spared - Malick is showing the opposite of evolutionary theories advocating competition and selection - he's telling us that the way of the universe is really one of cooperation and not one of competition; that competition merely leads to dead ends and that evolution happens through a mutual understanding. Okay, so if you're like me, you found that last paragraph worth reading. If you're not like me, you found it boring. Consider that the litmus test for this film. And if you're like me, that sequence was pretty self-evident the first time you saw it, and if you're not like me, it just didn't make much sense. Consider that the second litmus test. Again, to some people this whole film may seem really, really dry, pretentious and overdone. On the other hand, I may feel the same way about THEIR favorite movies, and I don't really see the point in being angry about it either way. Personally, I walked out of the film, got into my car, and burst into tears. Other people walked out laughing. The pacing is also very unusual. He gives you a lot of time to ponder everything. His films generally do this - you get lots of silence interspersed with small tidbits of actual dialogue, usually isolated rather than made to feel like part of a clear, linear plot. It's his style. Everyone has a threshold. This didn't cross mine. Solaris, just for comparison, is one film that did - I felt like that movie could have been 90 minutes shorter with no ill effect. It's all up to personal opinion..Score: 5/5
I love this film!As a follower of Jesus Christ, this film is so much about renewing you're faith to God. It shows the beauty of God and the harsh realities of this world. I like how they show the character as a child, struggling with faith and with the grace of God's true nature. The images are mind blowing and the development is top notch..Score: 5/5
PerspectiveDeeply intimate, yet vast in scope. Every frame a work of art. God, eternity, family, and sunlight all rolled into one coherent package. Searching. One of the greatest films ever made..Score: 5/5
Much Ado About Nothin'You and i could act better than Chastain, Pitt, and Penn. The director really had ZERO DIRECTION. Maybe I’m a dumb country bumpkin but I don’t know what it’s about..Score: 1/5
Wish I Could Give it Zero StarsIf I went to a theater to see this movie I would have walked out after 10 minutes. Since I streamed it, I stopped watching the movie after 10 minutes, and rented another one. This was a complete waste of money..Score: 1/5
It's a trap!!!Creationist bs is the only message here..Score: 1/5
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