At the end of my selection calm and respectful of the tree of life, I thought a lot about death and savagery and grace and the ephemeral qualities, but one eternal blade of grass. I was Malicked, in other words, flooded with images and feelings and philosophies of my own life and the director, captivated by a huge and serious film that will take many, many more viewings to unravel. The tree of life does not match well with the usual mode of critical analysis - what is the instructor to show me? What does this scene tell me what comes before? Where is the story coming? Avoid all but the smallest narrative thread, with characters so schematically, they are symbols that people said the tree of life, you bring your own emotional associations with it, using the universal images of nature and Family and Children's personal cause extreme reactions each spectator.
But it works even better in times when it is more accurate about the characters, and its purpose, but the lyrical energy blurred Malick is one of the greatest strengths of the film, to prevent the tree of life to become something big and transformative.
Showing that the birth of the planet or the middle child in a family in Texas, The Tree of Life is at its best in any detail. The non-linear narrative short introduces us to the parents of this family (Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain) as they mourn the death of their teenage son, before coming back to, literally, the beginning of the universe. For a long strip of film, we see no people at all aware of the movements of molecules, the development of the slippery fish and even dinosaurs, which paved the way for us on this planet, the cinematography, which was apparently Malick is working on for decades, is stunning, and coupled with classical music enthusiasts in this segment is phenomenal, even as a nagging voice in the back of the mind of a viewer can say, "Yes, but does this have to do with the family, we have just met? "
The answer is anything and everything, of course, parents and her three younger O'Brien is a particular family in the South-dyed and alive in the idyllic 1950, but they are also equivalent of Adam and Eve Malick symbols of all humanity and their struggles. After meeting with the eldest, Jack, as an adult played by Sean Penn and wander aimlessly in a modern glass skyscrapers, passing the central part of the continuous film with O'Brien in the 50's, see now scattered, large and small in what appears to be the last summer the family spent in their small suburban home. Jack reaches adulthood, their tendency to violence and sexual arousal of young people, is the slender thread that binds these scenes, which represent Chastain as an angel of light and grace almost silent, and Pitt as the melancholy Father desperately insecure - or is it God? - Motivates most of the rebellion of Jack.
The visual metaphors are all fast and beautiful, from trees to dogs to replace sprinkler something sublime, but again, the details win the emotional power: the fear of the face of a boy when a neighbor drowns in the swimming hole, or nutritious, bland foods on their plates at the dinner that the ruins with his father's anger.
Beautifully filmed by Emmanuel Lubezki, the middle section of childhood that we all want to remember it, both specific and misty with nostalgia. This gives way to a much more fragmented the third act, where we meet with an adult, Jack, we hardly know at all, and all the emotional catharsis that was not possible with the boy, Jack, but would was much more significant. The many ideas and emotions of the Tree of Life all collide in a series of more symbolic endings, some of which contain a visual language that is not present anywhere else in the film - a mask floating in the water , for example - and others who are close to dissolve the film needs. Although it ends with the end of the literal tree of life universe never feel quite finished, and certainly the attention Malick not think it is.
But even without success without restrictions, even dares many directions that not all paid, Tree of Life is an experience that deserves gobsmacking his greatness,Watch The Tree of Life Online Free.
