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Okay, you think it's art. Others may think it's pretentious, sophomoric navel-gazing most

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tinear

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In Reply to: RE: Oh, it fits within the film perfectly posted by Plinko on August 20, 2011 at 21:48:11

guys abandoned after sophomore year at college. "Gee, the universe is a cold place, yet we're warm-blooded: what's that about?"
As far as your grand allegory interpretation, that hardly makes the work novel or necessarily "deep."
Frankly, I think the narration is a large failure. Film, I'd argue, is a visual medium. If you cannot communicate your story visually, you're admitting defeat from the get-go.

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Just trying to explain one explanation for the creation sequence - Plinko 18:27:25 08/25/11 (1)
i would agree...allegory alone does not make a film.
i think anyone who labels the film pretentious is projecting and cannot explain in a detailed paragraph or two specifically why the film is pretentious. It's a frickin film. I am amazed at the anger something like this generates.

Edits: 08/25/11
- RE: Just trying to explain one explanation for the creation sequence - Analog Scott 15:04:54 08/26/11 (0)
  You arew talking to a guy who thinks Rise fo the Planet of the Apes is an intelegent film.....
...it's not only visual, but also............. - RedGrant 06:09:20 08/22/11 (2)
....a poetry, 4 dimensional poetry, involving time sequence. I think I am beggining to 'feel' and understand what Malick was after.
- Malick is "after" what Kubrick portrayed far better in 2001. I actually - tinear 08:54:15 08/22/11 (1)
  feel guilty placing it in the same reference. The faux-intellectualism of the narration is enough to drive anyone mad. Anyone, that is, that doesn't like complex issues reduced to hippie-like sentiments commonly repeated during drug-induced illumination.
  - ...I think Malick wanted to go beyond....... - RedGrant 17:28:49 08/22/11 (0)
    ...what Kubrick did. '2001' did involve time sequence, but limted to one character and more 'linear' chronological form.
    
    'Tree of Life' time sequence involved time sequence with multiple characters and in 'non-linear' chronological form.
    
    It's not meant to be 'analyzed', it was meant to be 'felt'.
    
    Btw. I remember what a pretentious bore I thought '2001' was when I first
    saw it. I was 25 and expecting a 'Star Wars'!
    
    Only when I saw it on big scree and when I was 42, then I got it.

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