This is under my favorite quotes. I adore this movie on so many levels. I can’t understand why people don’t feel what I feel when I see it.
It was one of the reasons I went to film school. Fincher.
(via fucking-danni)
Directed and Written by Terrence Malick (2011)
I saw this movie in its last week of its run at AMC’s Empire theater on 42nd street in Manhattan. It wasn’t our first choice, in fact we wanted to see Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris but the theater was so unbelievably packed we left. So in between my friend and I frolicked between theater, taking ridiculous pictures on the amazing balcony.
Finally we are in the small theater in what seems to be the most hidden farthest one to reach in the huge multiplex.
The first 30 minutes greeted us with what my friend and I agreed needed to be called eyegasms. The most spectacular shots and sequences I’ve ever seen on film. It seems that Malick only saved the most beautiful for this film.
Overall the film was very long and almost exhausting. I felt like I needed a drink after it was finished. I finally had feeling in my butt again and needed some time to process the film because it’s a lot to ingest.
I really liked this film.
Most of my cinephile peers insist that the film is not to be taken seriously and is overall pretentious. I have to disagree though, it simply comes off pretentious if you do not allow yourself the time to interpret what it means to you. Most people seem to be writing it off which is simpler then thinking about it.
In all it’s about Life, (duh) but it has many different elements to it.
1. It can be interpreted as a story about childhood and about ones memories. Sean Penns character reflects moments of his past that he deeply regrets which shape him. A man who resents the qualities he has inherited from his father, his work ethic, and his ego but is torn with the tenderness of his mother. A man who can’t shake the memories of his little brother who remained the same beautiful and loving child that haunts him.
It also does a brilliant job of interpreting the point of view of a person during each year of their life. The sequence about the first years of Penn’s life are amazing and capture something so real. Those first years of life when all you cared about was your mother.. When your days are lost in blurs of giggles, games, toys, and curiosity. You see things from a the bottom, everything around you seems so huge. Those blurs finally straighten out. Your memories become stronger and then all of a sudden you have responsibilities. You have a conscious and your on your way into becoming a teenager.
2. Then there is that whole pesky 30 minute sequence about nebulas, seascapes, and dinosaurs. It takes you on the journey through time from the beginning. From single celled organisms. It is so grand that it answers all the important questions about the universe while following what has ever been in existence (which is so massive) and then puts the microscope over an ideal family unit in 1950’s Texas.
3. Its about Nature vs. Grace a theme directly spoken about in the beginning of the film. Its captured masterfully by the directer throughout. A three legged dog, a crippled man, a broken window, the wonderment of a child.
4. Its about the presence of god. (If this film hasn’t baffled me already this is where I got lost). Your traveling throughout all of time, seeing the birth of all life forms, and leading a family and others into the gates of heaven. Is this all being seen though gods pov? Slipping in and out of the trials and regrets of ones life? Is Sean Penn’s character continuously asking forgives and finally receives it in the end and can finally rest in peace?
Whatever this film maybe truly about, its important. It provokes thought, which in my opinion (no matter what genre it is) the only standard I have to any great film. The Tree of Life is a major contribution to the film community. Its the type of film that didn’t make a gigantic splash in its release but will be studied in every film course in 30 years.
#4 Movie im excited for this summer
Brad Pitt in this movie is one of my favorite things in all the world. and him and the peanut butter. I just can’t even.
“Must he was dotty they way he gorged himself with peanut butter. But he wasnt dotty…just sweet and vague and terribly slow”
Ive been a peanut butter addict for the last 3 months so this is incredibly appropriate.
I loved Eat Pray Love (2010)
It’s the kind of movie that feeds your soul..
HEY FOLLOWERS DID YOU LIKE IT OR HATE IT?
In the book, the reason why Louis becomes depressed in the beginning of the movie is because he feels guilty about the death of his brother; not because he had a wife and child that died. In fact, he never had a wife in the book version.
