Movie Review: Far-Reaching Meaning Found in 'The Tree of Life'
Breaking the usual box-office convention, 'The Tree of Life' is Terrence Malick's answer to '2001: A Space Odyssey."
The world's most reclusive filmmaker has made the year's most ambitious and far-reaching film. It's Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, and while it doesn't come together perfectly, it's got amazing ideas and contains some of the best filmmaking in memory. The famously not-prolific Malick, making just the fifth film in his nearly 40-year career, has made his answer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey—a film scored with established classical music that starts literally at the beginning of time before settling into its primary plot and reaching an opaque, mystical conclusion that will have everyone arguing about its meaning. The Tree of Life, which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last month, is mostly the story of a …
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8:24 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
It didn't make a lot of sense to me, except to see the father was very mean to Jack. Is this the devil at work in the world. I wondered if Jack was also trying to hurt his two brothers, expecially the one who looked like Brad Pitt. I am scatching my head for it to end like it did. I recorded it but it is so long in between the speaking parts. You never learn which son was killed. I'm would be … more ›