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Actors
Sean Penn
Brad Pitt
Fiona Shaw
Jessica Chastain
Hunter McCracken
Laramie Eppler
Tye Sheridan

Director	IMDB Rating
Terrence Malick	7.1 out of 10 (50060 votes)

Year	2011

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Plot Summary:

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 (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.

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alekstigran

23 May 2012

In Brief

I will be very brief and will point on very obvious mistakes that areally good director would not do: 1. Choice of actors:The plot itself assumes not shine actors, as the shiny ones wouldobviously attract viewers attention from the plot to the actorsthemselves. The plot did not assume actors to be on their hight, somore human choice rather then Hollywood Apollos (though I really findboth Pitt and Penn great actors) would have been more appropriate. 2.Plot itself:The plot is terrible, annoyingly long, no structure at all, it lackskeeping viewers concentrated. Sometimes I was having a feeling that Iam watching National Geographic, rather then a "masterpiece". It wasabout the beauty of the nature, harmony of the humanity but this heavyemphases on Christianity proves the Director's ability to think out ofbox. I am Christian myself, but when the task is to create somethingfor the humanity, other then south US Christian audience you must breakthe box and look outside of it. For me the plot was something like anintellectual Big Mac. 3. Music:The soundtrack to the movie by Alexandre Desplat was great, but againthe movie the plot did not deserve this music. 4. OperatorAt some points I had a feeling that the operator was shaping his skillsby watching youtube. Absolutely nothing special or unique, mostly justcopy and pasts. 5. CannesI am not worried if this movie will win every possible and impossibleOscars, but Palme d'Or? This movie absolutely did not deserve to thisnomination.Conclusion: Do watch, but do not expect any "masterpiece" think it ismore like a National geographic program.

jonnelander

22 May 2012

Pretentious & unbearable

I personally didn't like anything about the movie. OK the picture isgreat but I prefer turning on Nat Geo wild on my 50" Plasma for that.The classical music in my opinion fits awfully to the nice pictures asit gets too much. Add Jessica Chastains character's biblical, nonsensetalk and the beautiful images are totally ruined.The problem as I see it is that I don't want someone to throw meeverything right in my face, leaving me feeling dump.The religious undertone makes it unbearable for me since I am anatheist and consider religious people, more or less, brainwashed.Director Malick should've killed at least half of his darlings and cutthe length to about 1.40. But it would't have saved the movie.I felt bad and honestly like throwing up when leaving the cinema.

JeremyHeynen

21 May 2012

This is not a movie, this is art!

This is not a movie, this is art. If you want to be entertained, lookelsewhere! The Tree of Life is a spiritual journey that will ring adeep sense of familiarity throughout your entire being.If what I said makes no sense to you, then don't bother trying to watch'The Tree of Life' because you'll only end up walking out, likeeveryone else in the theatre did tonight.The Tree of Life can not be put into words. There is no telling youdetails on what it is about. It's about life. It's an experience. I cantell you that depending on where your faith lies, and how strong it is,will greatly determine the feeling the film will leave you with. Eitherway, you should be ready for an enlightening experience.Another poetic masterpiece from Terrence Malick.2001: A Space Odyssey (- the sci-fi genre) + The Thin Red Line (- thewar genre) = The Tree of Life.

markreinitz

21 May 2012

Conveys what eternity is like - because it feels endless

This movie is a contemplation about eternity, familial love, themeaning of life, and the nature of God...and it is horrible. Most ofthe dialog is whispered in voice-over that is more often than notunintelligible. Suddenly random montages of dinosaurs, jelly fish, andvolcanoes take up twenty or more pointless minutes before returning toSean Penn riding up and down an elevator, silently, for severalminutes, or children crying for no obvious reason, or a boy putting awoman's slip in a river. It is the most pretentious movie that I haveever seen. There is a fine line between art and self indulgence -- thismovie goes far beyond it.

JoJo London

17 May 2012

A couple of hours of my life I'm not getting back

The Tree of Life was, for me, a dreadful film. Pompous, long winded andfull of a pretentiousness that seems to have taken in almost the entirecritical community. Talk about the King's New Clothes - Mallick ispractically hypothermic in this - yet such is the reverence with whichhe is treated (Badlands, and The Thin Red Line were good enough films,but Fellini he ain't...look to the studio for all the pseudo art househype),that it almost feels like you need to apologise if you don't wantto join in. I didn't see truth here, or enquiry, or finesse, orchallenge. This is a Director that Hollywood would have us see as somekind of Michelangelo...let loose on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapelwith a spray gun. My God, there are even CGI dinosaurs...and even THEYare doing 'symbolic' stuff. It just felt adolescent. No doubt Studio execs will all be booking their seats at the AcademyAwards, the cinematography is tremendous and Brad Pitt and JessicaChastain handle themselves well enough, but for me - The Tree of Lifewas a big, flabby, overfunded mess. No wonder people were laughing asthe credits rolled...Deeply disappointing...I'd been looking forward to it.

grajocker

16 May 2012

What a taste of time, the worst I have seen for a long time.

I tried watching it sober, tried watching it high... made nodifference. Avoid this film unless you wanna torture yourself withpseudo-intellectual randomness. Quotes from my house-mates: "Itsucked." "I ruined my mood." "Wtf". "I feel empty inside." "I don'tunderstand why it's so highly rated." "They constantly try to trick youthat something interesting will actually happen." "Dude I amtraumatised from that last movie." "I hope this gets posted." Well,additionally you really get to wonder what the director had in mind, orperhaps what his perception of reality was twisted by ... I would notwatch it again if you paid me for it. A definite no-no if you valueyour time.

cafm

15 May 2012

Profound genius ...

Please, allow me to get this off my chest first. I have no idea why people who hated this film actually took the time towrite reviews about it because all they've ended up doing is televisingtheir impatience for and incapacity to digest narratives that strayfrom a set classical narrative formula and refuse to provide any senseof certainty. I'm loathe to use the word ignorance here, but if theshoe fits ... It's one thing to not understand a filmic text - there'snothing wrong with that - but its something altogether different whenyou condemn it as worthless, and worse still to condemn those thatappreciate it. We might as well start burning books and shooting peoplewho don't conform - it's been done before. It's astounding to me that some IMDb reviewers actually defendKubrick's painfully slow and indecipherable 2001: A Space Odyssey evenas they condemn (and compare it with) The Tree of Life which is lessesoteric and a breezier film. It seems dishonest and a form ofinherited snobbery to defend a film that over time has come to beregarded with classic status (this is not to say I do not likeKubrick's film as I am a huge fan and see it any time it plays on a bigscreen near me).For those open to the experience, The Tree of Life is a rivetingexperience from the first to the last shot. While it is unconcernedwith linearity, there is a clear linear process at work within thefilm. The Tree of Life charts the thought processes of man who has justlearned that his brother has been killed, probably in Vietnam.Overwhelmed with grief at the death of his brother, he asks thequestion, "why?" which becomes the catalyst for a journey thatinvestigates this question from both a macrocosmic perspective whilesimultaneously analysing its infinitesimal details (I was reminded ofDziga Vertov). Thus Malick imagines, through the most breathtaking photography and useof ellipses, the big bang and the beginning of time, the slowinexorable evolution of species, the first inklings of sentient beingsrecognising their power over weaker beings and their capacity to abusethat power, the mindless savagery of nature, and the eventual end oftime when the universe collapses on itself. In between these twooverwhelming universal bookends, there is the micro level in which weget a look at a revisionist assessment of a childhood that locatesthose moments in time when the child took into itself the best andworst of those around them. Shots of a beach covered with people like abusy train station makes for a fabulous metaphor for memory (remindingme of the opening sequence of Lola Rent), although it also seemed toallude to the afterlife or some such imagined spiritual plain.Brad Pitt heads an extraordinary cast of characters that are allbelievable and affectionately rendered. Pitt's disillusioned Mr O'Brienis a tragic character whose bitterness so overwhelms him that it spillsover to infect his family, making their lives such a misery that itessentially builds a wall between himself and the people he loves withall his heart. Pitt's stunning performance evokes such a range ofresponse from sympathy to outrage to condemnation. The cast of youngO'Brien boys reminded me of Robert Mulligan's work on To Kill aMockingbird and The Other, showing how children may seem distracted butare always in the moment and guided by their impulses.The Tree of Life achieves things with cinema that have never been donebefore. Amazingly, one reviewer dismissively wrote that this film willbe forgotten in no time. I beg to differ and suggest that it will bewell remembered and the subject of much future film criticism for along time to come.

timandm

14 May 2012

Mindnumbingly boring and painstakingly slow

I mean no disrespect to the actors or crew involved in this movie. Infact, I think it had the potential to be a great movie; it simply isnot.Perhaps I'm simply not enlightened, educated, or avant-garde enough to'appreciate' the hidden brilliance in this film.For me, the movie was VERY slow and VERY boring. This movie actuallymakes movies like Emma and Little Women seem like action thrillers. Itreminded me of certain movies from the 70s in which the director, forsome reason, would choose to pan along a wall, silently, for a good 30to 60 seconds... No sound, no dialogue, no important points with regardto the plot. It simply 'was.' I suspect that if one took out the silent'panning' of random places and events from this movie, the story wouldnot change one iota and the length of this film would be less than halfits length; maybe even less. And NO, I AM NOT joking about that; I'mbeing literal.If, however, you enjoy lengthy scenes of people silently walking innon-nondescript settings then you will flat out LOVE this movie. That'sjust not my thing.I like movies that have dialogue and a point.

Francisco_de_Rosa

11 May 2012

If you are not Stanley Kubrick, please don't try to be.

7.8 out of 10!? It doesn't make any sense. Sorry, but this movie isterrible. The story is OK, there are definitely some good actingperformances and the music is the best part of the picture Â which isstrange for a visual (?) workÂ. But that's all! I'm really impressedwith the absolutely inexplicable number of good reviews, even herewhere the users usually have fair opinions. After reviewing them all Iwent to the theater expecting to watch a masterpiece. I couldn't bemore frustrated! Thank God I had the privilege to see "Super 8" on thefollowing day, more specifically, thank J. J. Abrans, thank Spielperg'sschool, for helping on my recovery! You must be a genius to be sopretentious: Big Bang, Dinosaurs, personal lost and Freudianpseudo-theories on childhood simply don't fit together. If you are notStanley Kubrick, please don't try to be.

denise-valentine14

11 May 2012

Very disappointing

Worst use of symbolism ever. Extremely bad editing - cutting away tooquickly and not giving you enough information. Excellent actors - ifthey were given more dialogue and more interaction with one another. Itwould have been better if there were less space pictures from theHubble Telescope and why so many waterfalls and dinosaurs. We all getit! Life, the Universe and everything. When people think about thesethings they don't actually see this sort of stuff unless they aresmoking something. Well, maybe I would have enjoyed the movie if I wassmoking something. - Note this is not a recommendation. Brad Pitt'sacting is very good for his part. It is too bad they did not utilizeSean Penn's talent with the minimalistic dialogue. It would have mademore sense. The only thing I can say for this movie is if you can getthrough it, there is food for thought. I do not recommend watching thismovie if you expect a plot.

Epic Winn

07 May 2012

Moving with a beautifully blunt storyline

Firstly, If you have not seen this movie yet. You honestly need to letgo and leave Mr or Mrs detective at the door.This movie is absolutely amazing in so many ways. You do not need yourhand to be held to explain the story to you at all. You have to let goand observe rather than be mindlessly entertained as what we are allsimply used to.I really do hope that people will be able to grasp it for exactly whatit is. A story of innocence, innocence lost, truth, will, life, deathand made in a way that was incredibly blunt but in a truly beautifulway.***semi spoiler alert (content)***I am continually seeing comments ranting about "random" specialeffects. They are by no means "random". They each have a very (Ithought) obvious intended purpose. Yes, they are beautiful but they aresimply many mirrors to each facet of emotion, rawness, truth to thestory and the characters experiencing life. The amazing cinematographyalone (for the entire film) literally had life breathing into it, itwas almost tangible just watching it. I was not only moved by thecinematography that people are referring to as lifted from "theuniverse" but also every single piece of facet of the family that wascreated into an absolute masterpiece of film. To me every single frame was special and I do not consider anything inthere that was for "fluff" or exclusively for the "wow, check this outon blu ray factor" I suppose some people have trouble with juxtaposition or the fact thatthey have been conditioned into others reading them a story and notallowing their own mind/logic to actually take control for once.I find it really sad that people are missing out on the beauty of thismovie, let alone the point of it. This conditioned restriction is acrying shame. This movie is the LEAST pretentious thing I have seen. I am not shockedthat some people have given it 1 star ratings, considering box officehits are always movies that strikes a chord with prepubescents. I found it beautiful, magic and moving. I give it 10/10 Thank you foreveryone who enjoyed it, understood it and appreciated it.I've only watched it the once but I will take your recommendations tore-watch.

williux30

07 May 2012

A celebration of life

A celebration of life trough visual expression, analogies between humanthinking and the events during the origin of life in the universe, amixing of human memories and those of the earth, sensations in everymoment of evolution. The situations and the events seem to be relatedwith the "book of Job" and "The Book of Genesis" in the Bible.Monologues with a conversation between God and human consciousness.There are Beautiful images representing the creation of biologicalsystems and the expression of divine will trough acts of love. Humanityfinds a meaning following a path guided by its own nature trying to bein a state of grace with God, emphasizing that humans needs to acceptthe will of God, even when it displeases the earthly desires andsuffering is implied in it. The film presents the nature of humanhearth that leads us to believe that we have enough intelligence tounderstand the mind of God, but at the end we realize that we willnever reach the complete knowledge. It is very powerful at the end ofthe film the suggestion that we may only need to learn how toappreciate the beauty, instead of trying to find an explanation to allthings in the universe, because we have a limited capacity to do so,for me the most important message of the film is: "The only way to behappy is to love, unless you love, your life will flash by", there isalso a begging to God in the end: "Keep us, guide us, until the end oftime". Good film in order to reflect

jzappa

06 May 2012

Meant to Draw Reactions from Viewers as Exclusive and Individual as What Malick Shows Us

Rapturously beautiful to an overwhelming degree, lyrically capturedwith a poet's eye and a metrical, symphonic ear, this purely individualvision is a film of cosmic ambition and profound constancy, meaning noless than to embrace all of existence, including its infinite unknowns,and see it through the spectrum of a few microscopic lives. The oneother film I've ever seen that seizes the inconceivably extraordinarymagnitude and nature of the universe is 2001: A Space Odyssey, andstill it lacked Malick's intense suggestion of human emotion. Thereused to be numerous directors who longed to make nothing short of awork of art, but now there are merely a handful. Malick has preserved apurer integrity to that hope than virtually any other Americanfilmmaker, ever since his first film in 1974. I can't recall when afilm has united more immediately with my own existential memory andhuman sensitivity.In uncanny ways, the central events of this orchestral recollection ofthe intangible reflect a time and place in a way that had to have beenlived and felt and remembered in order to be seen this way, and theboys in it are the boys in us all. His abstruse scenes render anupbringing in an American small town, where life pours in and outthrough open panes and glass. There's a father who upholds authorityand a mother who radiates forgiveness, and lingering summer days ofrunning and spontaneity and burning whispered questions about the worthof it all. The three boys of the O'Brien family are bronzed by the sun,scraped by play, troubled by hints of grown-up secrets, awash with animmense urgency to mature and realize who they are. Watching them growfrom infants to adolescents is a recollection of the intangible, thoseearly images upon which so much of our perception has since been builtthat to see that minutiae encapsulated on screen makes this odic filmone of the most celestial experiences we're likely to have at themovies, if you're patient, and thankful for something so distinctiveand superlative to be getting as much exposure in American cinemas asit is.Uncanny truly is the word for how acutely and lyrically Malick evokesour own common reminiscences of childhood, which he knows we somehowalways remember with a wide-angle lens. Houses that are alwaysunlocked. Mothers peering out windows to watch over their children. Thesummer heat and tedium of church services, the volatile drama of thedinner table, and the disconcerting resonance of a fight betweenparents, distantly heard through an open window. I grew up in a veryurban environment, the doors locked and everything air-conditioned.Makes no difference. Most of us, unless very unfortunate, havesomething of the same childhood, because we're cosseted by gullibilityand innocence.The parents are named Mr. O'Brien and Mrs. O'Brien. Of course. Theparents of other kids were never conceived of by their first names, andthe first names of your own folks were only said by others. They wereMom and Dad, or Mother and Father, and they delineated your reality,and you were defenseless against their emotions, both reassuring andupsetting. And young Jack O'Brien is maturing, and someday he'll be Mr.O'Brien, but will never feel to himself as palpable as his father did.Seldom is film more clearly an alliance of passion between director andproduction designer. Jack Fisk's design fixes like a dream into thecharacters' lives. What makes the film so rhapsodic is that Malickconceives the O'Brien parents and their sons without an observableplot: The movie seizes the unscheduled relating of summer days, and hismatchless use of voice-over in his work, in the case in the guise ofthe eavesdropped questions and thoughts too afraid to be asked aloud,but are more important than anything that's ever said aloud.Some critics have said Mr. O'Brien, Brad Pitt having never before beenso everyman, is too harsh as a tyrant. No, he's doing what he believesis proper, as he was raised. As kids we begrudge discipline, andcertainly a kid would occasionally get hit at a 1950s dinner table. Butpay attention to a finely tuned exchange between Jack and his father."I was a little hard on you sometimes," Mr. O'Brien says, and Jackresponds: "It's your house. You can do what you want to." Jack isbacking his dad against himself. That's how you grow. And it all occursin this flicker of a lifetime, encircled by the dominion of unthinkabletime and space.In murmured words near the beginning, "nature" and "grace" are heard.We've seen the natural world as it reciprocates. One of the family'sboys dies. We also see how it plies time, as Jack develops into amiddle-aged man. The film's afterthought offers an imagination of aspirit world, an isolated terrain on which hushed people somberlyrecognize and reunite with each other, and all is accepted in the wholeof time.This distinctive film's likeness of daily life is surrounded by vastenormity in space and time, as well as spirituality. The Tree of Lifehas overwhelming visuals evoking the origin and growth of the universe,the advent of life at a minuscule stage and the progression of species.This evolution sets the current moment, and us all, in motion. We cameabout in the Big Bang and over untold millions of years, moleculesshaped themselves into, to cut a long story short, you and me, Jack andhis father.

freemantle_uk

06 May 2012

It is ironic that a film called Tree of Life can zap it all away

The Tree of Life is a great example to me that a film could brilliantcinematography, visuals, music and acting and could still be a poorfilm. Terrence Malick is a great director but I feel if The Tree ofLife was directed by an unknown director and featured an unknown castthen this film would have been seen for what it really is, pretentioustwaddle.Starting in the 1950s, a couple (Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain)receive news that their 19-year-old died and their adult son, Jack inthe modern world (Sean Penn) looks back on his life. The Tree of Lifeexamples the Big Bang and the age of the dinosaurs to the 50s when thedad takes his frustrations out of his sons (Hunter McCracken, LaramieEppler and Tye Sheridan) as their father makes them do jobs and istough on them. He forces his way of life on them and wants them to lovethem. The boys' mother is more loving, offering them unconditionallove. Soon Jack becomes resentful against his father.I will praise Emmauel Lubezki and the special effects team for at leasttrying to make Tree of Life a visual treat and Pitt , Chastain andMcCracken did offer great performances. But what else is there? Ofcourse there are themes as expected from an Art-House film like this,the mains being that in the grand scheme of the universe humanity andall personal issues are minor and that in religion that good peoplesuffer and need to go through trials. The other major theme is twodifferent types of parenting and the idea of two courses of life,nature and grace. But I believe Tree of Life did this poorly and Ithink there was a more interesting film within Tree of Life about thedysfunctional relationship between a father and son, a son becomingbitter against father and becoming a juvenile delinquent. There arebits of the film which lead nowhere, for example looking at a younggirl, hinting one of the boys fancy her and she not even in the filmafter that. The film lacks dialogue, lacks character inactions or evena coherent plot. Events just fly by and the film is quickly edited.Dialogue and conversations are useful.The film reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey, mainly because of thescenes of the birth of the universe and life and the surreal ending.But birth of mankind and its progression, urging for knowledge andevolution played a key part of the plot. Whilst the scenes withdinosaurs are very interesting, it had nothing to do with the rest ofthe film. But it would have been a lot more fun if it had moredinosaurs. I could also compare The Tree of Life to The Lovely Bonesbecause of the narration and its look of the afterlife. That film washeavily criticised but I feel that The Lovely Bones' version of heavenis better then Tree of Life. Also Penn's role is pointless to the film.Overall I believe is pretentious and only praised by critics and wonthe Palme D'Or because of the reputation of its director. I was in acinema known for showing art-house films and popular with cinephilesand I think most of them were board with it.

CountZero313

04 May 2012

life goes on

A middle-aged man, Jack, has fragmentary recall of a childhood summer,or summers, growing up in middle America circa 1950s with his twobrothers. His disciplinarian father exudes ambition and frustration.His mother bears all the family's faults. There is a coming-of-age ofsorts for Jack, though nothing is so clearly defined in this episodic,imagistic outing. What is a life? Jack asks himself, framed in thecontext of the loss at 19 of his younger brother, possibly in theVietnam war, given that the news arrives in an official brown envelope.I saw this in Glasgow Film Theatre at a screening introduced by anacademic. "It is a film that demands to be admired," he said, "but canbe difficult to embrace." I shared that sentiment, admiring thevisuals, though finding myself wondering if some of the frames were tooself-indulgent at times. The performances are sublime, the childrenincredibly realistic, brash and vulnerable. Pitt, once again, excels.But I couldn't help feeling the technical prowess was leaving mefeeling distanced from it all - until a climatic scene on a beach,people wandering and mingling in some kind of sunset-drenched purgatory- or maybe not: it is difficult to say anything with confidence aboutwhat exactly is going on at any one moment. It may have been the end oftime. Nothing is said, but the glanced touches, embraces, and looksmet, proved charged and incredibly cathartic. It is a challenging film,but in the end, a deeply rewarding one.Malick sets out to hit the audience with shock and awe, and does sosuperbly.

gigadragon12

04 May 2012

Word of Mouth Review: Tree of Life

Review Score: 8.5/10 Â Go see it in theaters, IF you aren't a typicalblockbuster fan.Every now and then a move comes along that sets a new milestone in theaccomplishments of cinema. This year Tree of Life is that film.If you've heard anything about Tree of Life then you probably alreadyknow if you're interested or not. To recap, Tree of Life is a movieabout a family unit, and some of the complications that arise in theirlives. The movie more or less starts at the end with the death of oneof three brothers in the family. Afterwards a large chunk of the movieis dedicated to a slide show of universe sized film snippets, followedby nature and micro life film snippets. Then the movie comes back tothe family at the beginning, going from the birth of the first son tothe conclusion of complications near the end of the first sons pre-teenyears.The movie itself does not have a lot of dialogue. The majority of thisdialogue is whispered and poetic and set on top of montages of artisticfilm pieces, cutting from image to image, and wellÂ go watch thetrailer if you want a better idea of it.As goes with this type of a movie, there isn't much action. The centralconflict focuses on the relationship between the oldest son and hisfather and the effect this has on the rest of the family. Classicalmusic plays behind most scenes, and some scenes have no sounds at all.This is not to say there aren't tense moments. One particular scene inwhich the oldest boy trespasses in someone's house, is silent and verytense as you wonder whether or not someone will catch him or not.In the end Tree of Life is about imagery, and then about life. The filmmakers tried to capture the prettiest, largest, smallest, most basic,and most complex moments of life, death, hate, love, creation,destruction, and beauty in the universe, micro verse, nature, and humanlife.Listen, if you are a movie goer that is not impressed by simple mindedaction flicks, or if you are just looking for an experience that isentirely unique to the world of cinema, then this is the movie to gosee. This is not really a movie for everyone.By the way, if you are going to go see it, see it in theaters. Lots ofthe imagery will be harder to grasp if you see it on a small screen.I'm the mouth, and this has been the word.

Mahmoud_Buttrumps

27 April 2012

A Heatwarming Fairy Tale

The Tree of Life' is a fairy tale. Nothing more. Nothing less. Oneshouldn't look at it otherwise and discover plot holes (there are many)or flaws in the screenplay or how it deviates from reality because thenyou'll obviously be disappointed. I really enjoyed it because I wasn'texpecting something otherwise. It was heartwarming, fun and just veryentertaining.This is Malick's best work to date. He comes up with a slightlyoriginal screenplay and in spite of its 2 hour + length it doesn't dragon. Jatin Lalit's music is very pleasant and catchy. Of course thereare the convenient plot holes etc but The Tree of Life isn't trying tobe a 'realistic' film. Cinematography is very good but sound effectcould have used more improvement.Coming to the performances, 'The Tree of Life' entirely belongs to BradPitt. The actror is nothing short of excellent. He dominates all hisscenes, his remarkable non-verbal expressions, his hidden pain, hishesitant joy, his guilt and his chemistry with co-stars is impeccableand he shows the growth in his character with grace. Sean Penn is verygood and equally shows the growth in his character well. Though one maywonder whether he would have fallen in love with Madonna if she stilllooked like a tomboy (from the way he talks to her about his daughterit does seem that he loved her) but that maybe be due to the Hollywoodhijinx...again let's not get into that as this is just a fairy tale.Jessica Chastain makes the most of what she's given. Fiona Shaw isstrictly okay. The rest of the cast are quite good. Jimmy Donaldson isgood in some scenes but goes over the top in most.All in all, this is one entertaining flick. If one expects to watch aslice of reality, then they'll be disappointed but if one is lookingfor a heartwarming fairy tale then this is the flick to pick.

Tommy T

26 April 2012

The Emperor Has No Clothes

Slow, draggy, endless graphics based on Hubble and National Geographicimages. No plot. No basis for development of characters (if anyoccurs). Time line jumps around and simply adds to confusion. Sean Pennhas about 30 seconds of screen time and adds nothing of any value tothe movie except a name to lure in those of us who thought he was greatin Mystic River.Seems to be some kind of religious story -- boy has faith, boy losesfaith, as adult regains faith and whole family, dead and alive, meetsin heaven which seems to be a beach someplace.A couple of couples walked out, much grumbling at end "we paid forthis??" etc.In my personal opinion, most people who praise this are justembarrassed to admit that they had no idea what was going on.

hans3808

22 April 2012

A gripping drama

Of course Brad Pitt is excellent as the strict father but Jack, playedby Hunter McCracken also stands out and you feel with his anguishedsoul. It is a beautiful and haunting movie which takes you acrossUniverse, back to the early times of the Earth with absolutelymagnificent sceneries. Jessica Chaston, as the mother is just perfectfor this role with her inner beauty and grace. This is an unusual filmand a must if you are interested in "real" life dramas, this could havebeen any of us in the 1950s and although the ending was a bit "unusual"I think it reflected Jack's anguish as a grown up man and unsure of hisfaith, if he had one. Go and see it and be glad you are alive. It is awonder when you see all the beauty of earth and Universe and if youhave time, sit down under a tree one day and look up, the leaves couldbe mistaken for the stars.

taxfreeknight

21 April 2012

Its about the complex relationship of a father(Brad Pitt) and son(Sean Penn) spanning over decades and about how they come to terms with the issue of their son/brothers death.

The sad part is that I got the movie and still found it awful,,to use apolite word. The has got to be most boring movie ever,hands down.Infact I had more fun reading the reviews while actually watching themovie.The actors including the young ones n the director himself has noclue what they are doing.The director might have had a plan in thebeginning and then along the way forgot what it was and so he got thisconfused piece together. Its like taking a Rom_Com script and making itinto a horror movie.But the worst part are the critics review of thismovie, which in the 1st place was d reason I watched this movie. Theyare certainly on a different high to have liked this movie or they aresimply putting up a "oh I m so deep" act in order not to be countedamongst the mortal class or may be they were just doing what they werepaid a bunch of money to do so.Which ever is the case they are a fakelot. Avoid this movie like the plague.

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