2011 Directed by Terrence Malick
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. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Brad Pitt Sean Penn Jessica Chastain Hunter McCracken Laramie Eppler Tye Sheridan Fiona Shaw Jessica Fuselier Nicolas Gonda Will Wallace Kelly Koonce Bryce Boudoin Jimmy Donaldson Kameron Vaughn Cole Cockburn Dustin Allen Brayden Whisenhunt Joanna Going Irene Bedard Michael Koeth Finnegan Williams John Howell Samantha Martinez Savannah Welch Tamara Jolaine Julia M. Smith Anne Nabors Christopher Ryan Tyler Thomas Show All…
Craig Berkey Hamilton Sterling Erik Aadahl Will Files Justin Herman Chris Scarabosio Joel Dougherty Kirk Francis John Pritchett Matthew Reale
Plan B Entertainment Fox Searchlight Pictures River Road Entertainment Brace Cove Productions Summit Entertainment
To dentro tis zois, The tree of life - l'arbre de vie, El árbol de la vida, 트리 오브 라이프, ツリー・オブ・ライフ, Древо жизни, 生命樹, A Árvore da Vida, Drzewo życia, Το Δέντρο της Ζωής, Elämän puu, Дрво живота, Дървото на живота, L'arbre de la vida, Strom života, L'arbre de la vie, עץ החיים, Drvo života, Az élet fája, სიცოცხლის ხე, Copacul vieții, Hayat Ağacı, Древо життя, Cây Đời, 生命之树, 永生樹
France
Cannes Film Festival
USAPG-13
FranceTP
Belgium
ItalyT
Switzerland
Greece
PortugalM/12
Poland
Germany0
Canada
AustraliaPG
Ireland12A
UK12
Brazil10
Finland
Norway
MexicoB
South Korea15
Estonia
Argentina
Hungary
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Norway
Poland
Portugal
South Korea
Switzerland
UK
USA
My Mother was and is the most important part of my life. But, a year ago I fell in love with a girl. She loved me with all her heart. Then, she left me. My heart was broken, bleeding. I was blinded. Blinded from all the wonders of the world. I was losing touch with all the happiness around me. I felt severe guilt when I accidentally smiled. I thought it was fate, that such sufferance should befall me. I underwent a severe phase of depression. I contemplated suicide. I could not do the things that I love. I could not get the person I loved. My Mother wanted me to be my old happy self again. She wanted me…
Holy, and I mean this in the most genuine way possible, shit.
Edit: I was going to leave it at that but I just can't lol. I gotta keep going wow wow wow FUCK. Also I'm totally about to just say what everyone already knows but fuck it.
Yeah as pretentious as this is about to sound, this isn't even a film. It is but it's not using filmmaking in a way to tell any particular story. It miraculously all works together so tightly to convey these emotions as a way of, more importantly, getting across certain philosophical ideologies. As a lot of people have noted, it's more of a meditative experience than what you typically get from film. It…
no other film has help me more
in the face of suicidal ideations,
over the years, than this one here.
I'm convinced there's a Malick gene. Some have it and some don't. Some watch one of his films and are so moved they can barely speak and others watch the same film and can't believe they wasted all that time. This review is for those that have it or at least want to discover if they have it.
Every single frame of this film is beautiful. I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen another film where the director didn't have to go with a utilitarian shot here and there for the sake of the plot. Not here. It's almost like looking at a long string of exceptional photographs. That's really the first thing that stands out about this…
100
"Tell us a story from before we can remember."
An impression of many lives, countless lives, vast, immeasurable lives but centralized around the duration of just one human being. So much of Malick's ingenuity stems from the fact that no other movie, before or since, looks like this, and as much as Lubezki has tried to replicate the effect for other artists, it is the singular worldview which embodies its essence, capturing a startling, fierce way of seeing the world. It's all a miracle, riotous and energized, contemplative and searing. Ordinary aspects of life - trees, grass, cars, water - are seen in a new light, one of heavenly grace, vivid construction, and organic evocation. Have to say that…
I don't understand Terrence Malick.
I don't like Terrence Malick movies.
I'm not going to watch another one.
I went in with an open mind.
I tried to look at it from a lateral perspective and get the symbolism.
I couldn't.
I hated it.
It bored me.
I don't get Terrence Malick.
The images are beautiful but I had no emotional engagement.
I won't use energy to elaborate further.
I don't like it.
"Do you trust in God? Job too was close to the Lord."
Talking about The Tree of Life is almost impossible without immediately descending into the realm of subjective opinion. It is so uniquely idiosyncratic that you can't compare it to anything else in objective terms. I could tell you that I think it's one of the greatest films ever made, but for somebody already skeptical of critical objectivity I have no way to back up that claim. I know there are many people who hate it, and they're not wrong to do so. I have no cards to play; there's nothing for me to do but tip my hand.
I loved it.
I didn't love all of it the…
A lot has been written already about the larger, symbolic domestic war here between our flawed attempts at grace and love vs. the naturally unruly winds of time (Mother… Father…) which is all absolutely true but on rewatch I was particularly struck by this as a tragic work of a boy inheriting his father’s domineering, agonizing feelings of failure and drive for success even at the cost of his loved ones. (Especially finally watching the 3-hour extended cut which adds so many clarifying detours into the family’s personal and economic history.) This bridged transformation is drawn in such vivid memory recreation and formally liberated expressiveness it feels like some form of spiritual reincarnation; an act of digging so deep internally…
"Unless you love, your life will flash by." So powerful
I'M
IN
LOVE
WITH
THIS
FILM
watched as Malik intended, on the Canadian version of abc family with commercial breaks on a very small TV
