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# The Tree of Life [DVD]

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    2001: A Space Odyssey and Distant Voices, Still Lives Meet (on the Ledge)
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2011*

POSSIBLE SPOILERS ALERTMost viewers will give The Tree of Life either one star, and complain vehemently that they can't understand (there's a clue there!) why others praise the film so highly when it was clearly self-indulgent tosh, or they will give it five stars and declare it a masterpiece. In other words it will divide the audience very clearly in two, just like 2001: A Space Odyssey did in the sixties, and for some of the same reasons. The Tree of Life also reminded me very strongly of Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives. All three are beautifully crafted, and could be called emotional experiences rather than "films".All three are intensely visual and don't tell you in any straightforward linear narrative what is going on. They also use music very deliberately and powerfully. You have to have a certain faith in the film-maker that he knows what he's doing and although he is making some bold moves you have to give him enough slack because he will give you an experience that will play in your mind for months or even years. But although viewing any film requires us to suspend our disbelief (gosh, if you look to the side you can see "Exit" signs) I think that with 2001 and Tree you have to go that bit further, give the film-maker a bit more latitude to take you on that journey while you have to try to suppress your critical faculties of the particular bits you don't like, or at least don't like yet. You have to let yourself sink into the film as you would into a warm bath, and let it happen to you.I found I was being intensely critical for the first half-hour, saying to myself "I don't think I'm going to like this very much," and I even thought at one point, "It is just possible that I may walk out in the middle." I thought the dinosaur bit was taking things a bit too far, and instead of thinking about compassion or grace I was thinking that CGI still looks a bit clunky. But I am glad that I relaxed, switched off the critical point-scoring and just opened up to the experience. The end result was that I enjoyed the film more than almost any other I have ever seen, and found it profoundly moving - quite literally it moved me to tears.Some say that it is deep and others that it's a con, and not deep at all. I think it is emotionally resonant, so conjures deep emotions in you, the viewer, but only if you're prepared to let it. Others say it's complex, and others found it facile or just dumb, and resent that the other parties impugn their sensibilities because they didn't "get it". In my opinion, it's not complex in that it's not a puzzle with clues you have to work out, but it does require you to interpret your own meaning from it. So you have to suspend being over-critical, but that doesn't mean you are just a passive viewer; the film demands that you interpret what you see and hear and to be aware of your own emotional response to it. You have to make your own emotional contribution to the film while you're watching it and afterwards; like all great art, perhaps, in the end it's what it makes you feel that is the measure of how good it is, and that's a very personal thing. And in the end, the love you take...Oddly, even people who like the film a great deal have different opinions about what works and what doesn't. I still don't much care for the dinosaurs bit, but I loved the "everybody meets on the beach" part which reminded me of Richard Thompson's epic song Meet on the Ledge (written when he was a callow youth of 17, and still sung 42 years later every year at midnight by a tear-stained crowd of 20,000 people who've come together on an old English Civil War battlefield in Oxfordshire.) On the other hand, some people loved the dinosaurs and hated the meet on the beach part, thinking it was corny (or some kind of heaven.)An explanation (thank you, Martin Carthy) for readers who are unfamiliar with Richard Thompson: "Bob Dylan is the American Richard Thompson."Similarly, those of a religious bent find it a confirmation of their religious belief, I found it an affirmation of my atheism, or more accurately my humanism, crystallised in the softly spoken voice over from the mother near the end that goes something like, "All that matters is that you love...for without love life will pass you by in a flash."Part way through the film my interpretation became this: the creation of the universe, the formation of the Earth, the evolution of life, all leads up to this point in time, to this boy's life - the brother that died, or the brother that is grieving, or the boy that is you remembering your own childhood and is now watching this film. It might be stretching a point (and sound a bit too Pythonesque) to say that The Tree of Life is about the meaning of life. But it clearly is, you know.Finally, there's some biographical stuff about Terrence Malick that I picked up from some recently published critiques. They shouldn't be plot spoilers, but do add a sledgehammer blow to the emotional impact and "meaning" (if you insist) of the film. I have no idea if this is completely true but what I read was ... Malick was brought up as the oldest of three brothers in Waco, Texas (there's at least one clue in the film that we are in Waco.) When Terrence was in his early twenties his middle brother, Larry, still in his teens, went to Spain to study classical guitar under guitar maestro Andrés Segovia. (We recall the short scene in Tree where the middle brother picks out a melody on guitar while sitting on the step that his frustrated musician father is playing on piano, and they share a moment of mutual discovery.)Something clearly went very wrong, and Malick's father asked him to go over to Spain to find out what was happening, but Terrence refused, having better things to do. Malick senior made the trip to Spain to discover that some stress or depression or pressure of study had caused Larry to break both his hands and ultimately take his own life. His father brought Larry's body back home to the devastated family. It seems very likely that this tragedy has been a burden of grief for Malick all his life, and is the mainspring for finally making this film.I can only suggest that those reviewers who found the film trivial and meaningless read the two paragraphs above, then go and watch it again - I think you may have missed something.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    "Extensive and vivid exploration of our existence..."
  

*by S***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2011*

American screenwriter, producer and director Terrence Malick`s fifth feature film which he wrote, is an American production which was shot on locations in USA, Chile, Italy and Iceland. It premiered In competition at the 64th Cannes International Film Festival in 2011 and was produced by producers Dede Gardner, Bill Pohlad, Brad Pitt, Grant Hill and Sarah Green. It tells the story about the American family O'Brien whose good and quiet life in a Texas suburb during the 1950s, is disrupted by the eldest son's confrontation with his own adolescence.This philosophical, religious and scientific journey through time and mind is a surreal and evangelical allegory, a family portrayal, a depiction of childhood, a period piece, an existentialistic drama, an all-embracing and retrospective study of character and an atypical science-fiction film which renders an extensive and vivid exploration of our existence. Merging various voice-over narrations with ethereal music from French composer Alexandre Desplat, a fragmented narrative structure and versatile camera movements, this nuanced, experimental and symbolic piece of modern cinema is notable for it`s fine editing, production design by American production designer, art director and director Jack Fisk and cinematography by Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. This character-driven epic about the loss of innocence, the past, the present, the future, grief, faith and family relations, is a profoundly moving fictional tale from a visionary and impressionistic filmmaker who correlates and marks the differences between human kind and nature in his particular way.American actor and producer Brad Pitt, in yet another unconventional role and one of  his greatest acting performances, and Jessica Chastain who expresses more with her body language than with words, is notable in the unorthodox role as Mrs. O'Brien. A role certainly as enigmatic and somewhat similar to Australian actress Miranda Otto's character in "The Thin Red Line". At the center of the story is Jack who is played by American actor, screenwriter and director Sean Penn as an adult and as the young Jack by Hunter McCracken in his debut feature film role, an impressive performance in the demanding role as the eldest son who is torn between a father and mother who has very different ways of showing their affection. This indelible and life-affirming fable which makes it mark in cinema history gained, among numerous other awards, the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
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*by J***G on Reviewed in Sweden on 18 May 2024*

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