The Tree of Life (2011)

[floridaorange]

Re: The Tree of Life (2011)

^I don't know why, but I find this style very refreshing. It's as if Malik is trying to suggest you feel an emotion rather than shoving it down your throat with the same old stories we've seen over and over again since we were kids.

I've been told I have to see "the new world" which obv I have not yet.

[Illuminate]

Re: The Tree of Life (2011)

Further comments

MARGARET: David.

DAVID: Well, it's certainly ambitious and I love that about it. I loved that about Malick. I've loved the films he made before this, which are all, in one way or another, about man's fall from grace really. But as we've seen already in Cannes and again when the film showed at the Sydney Film Festival, the film divides audiences dramatically. Now, that's probably a good thing. A lot of people dislike it very much, I guess are bored and don't like the fact that there isn't a conventional narrative.

MARGARET: Poor them.

DAVID: Okay. And other's love the audacity and the vision of it all and I guess I'm somewhere in between. I love the vision. I think there are moments when it almost evokes 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY in its grand vision but I don't think it gets there and it's interesting that he tinkered with the film for a couple of years. It was supposed to be in Cannes a year ago and it has last year's date on it as a copyright date but now he's done a six hour director's cut apparently.

MARGARET: Yummy.

DAVID: But I do think there are elements that don't work. I think the Sean Penn character is poorly integrated into the rest of the film and I think the last part of the film, for me, doesn't work so...

MARGARET: Well, you see, I think this is a very personal film for Malick. He grew up in Texas and I think it is him grappling with major questions of life in his life. He's also an academic, an incredibly bright filmmaker, and a great humanist, I think, and I just - I was incredibly moved and stimulated by this film and I'm giving it a rare 5 stars from me.

DAVID: Okay. I can only give it three.

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3246768.htm

[srbbnd]

Re: The Tree of Life (2011)

Blah.... cinematography was amazing... I enjoyed the characters with the 10 minutes of lines they had during the entire movie, but other then that blah... So the kid loses his innocence...so he questions the existence of god. Did not enjoy this movie. Reminded me of a typical Russian movie like Solaris or Stalker.