Change Your Image
Cinegrahamcracker
Reviews
The Tree of Life (2011)
This is not a movie: so WHAT is it?
THIS is a guided search through the experiences of life toward a restoration of faith, forgiveness, and perhaps, self-acceptance. But it is NOT pedantic. Malick seems to specialize in recreating the experiences in the viewer through the combination of image, sound, and story. I wonder if he would mind if I said that he is our "Hemingway" of film. He doesn't really waste a lot of time preaching at us, but rather letting us "feel" the story at core through the direct access he gives us to the characters through their actions and their literal perspective of the world. If you need to give a good book 50 pages to sink into you: you also must practice patience with this film during some of the more "abstract" scenes.
This is not a "fast-food" film: this is a FEAST.