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is SO trying hard to make a GREAT FILM. Here, he takes the light show of Kubrick to eternal lengths--- but, unlike in 2001, there is NO reason for it to be in the film, at all.
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Yes, I know it is supposed to show the contrast between the cold and powerful world/universe and the human condition, but this is hitting the audience over the head with a 2000-lb. mallet. How many times must one make this rather trite point?
I saw the film at an "art house" in my university town. A second after it ended, a woman behind me loudly laughed. A man added, "Amen!" Several snickered at that. I'd agree with those reviews. Nothing is worse than pretension. Excess. Grand overreaching. This isn't just a bad film, it's a really bad one. Sean Penn is wasted. Brad Pitt almost dislocates his jaw jutting it out so much. I confess I was distracted by him so thrusting it out. It is remarkable. See if you can ignore it. I guess it kept me from leaving. I wanted to see if he could speak while maintaining it in that position. I won't share that secret, it would spoil just about the only fun you'd have at this stinker.
Follow Ups:
...titled Love It Or Hate It: Few Are In Between About 'Tree Of Life'. At link below.
Same sort of thing happened with 2001. Heck back in the day fist fights broke out at the debut of Strvinsky's Rite of Spring Ballet. I just hope this one gets a wide release and becomes a hot topic because of it's deviciveness.
and yes, it is more linear this time around. However, the middle brother could not have died in combat - the mother received the news from a letter delivered by a postman.
Wouldn't this news be delivered by the military in person?
The idea of nature and grace became more apparent with the prehistoric segment - a movie of epoch proportions ; ^ )
I like the idea of the asteroid impacts as sort of cosmological chapters.
May require a third viewing...
I may have read more into the circumstancen than was warrented. It was my ippression that the telegram delivery was a common way of recieving such news but now that you mention it during vietnam I think such news was delivered in person for the most part. It was the time period and the age of the son and the fact that he was clearly away from home that made me think it was Vietnam. There was also something about that whole thing that felt like it was not such a total surprise. There was no sense of "what happened?" from the neighbors.
There was as a "matter of form" feeling about the neighbors and the news of the death. Hmmm...
Perhaps Malick leaves the cause of death vague because its details here would be needless; death is part of nature we equally share.
The image of the middle son as a soldier fits the idea of him trying to match the "nature" of his father, while the older son feels a need to transcend.
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That would put the time frame of the family in the 1940s, if he died in battle at age 19.
I'm not convinced - I don't think the audience knows how he dies.
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Was the son much of a fighter? As with the music lessons, did the son try to live up to certain standards?
Did he go to war to prove something to his father, as one battling the world just like him?
Jack is an opposing force to the father's influence, and is in competion with the father for predominance (along with other Oedipal hints). Sean Penn's character is the sacrament of Reconciliation, ie, conversion, confession and celebration.
We don't know the full extent of the father's influence over the middle child however, but the idea of "fight" and "battle" does play into the film's thematic concerns of nature vs grace.
...consensus of major film critics in the US this week, it is currently ranked #2.
Nice to see Midnight in Paris and Bridesmaids in the top 10.
I found much to admire, if not to embrace. This is not a film that touches the emotions, it isolates the characters in a time and place- 1950s Waco, Texas. It is pretentious to be sure. But much of it is quite remarkable nonetheless. I cannot profess great affection for the characters (compared, say to Bridesmaids, or a more normal character-driven movie). But visually, it is as sumptuous as his others.
Where would you place it, in comparison to his other films?
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