The Tree of Life

Before you read any further, you MUST watch the preview.


The Tree of Life


I'm serious!

It's only 2 minutes long - click on the link and WATCH it before you read any further.


PREVIEW


An impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's, The Tree of Life is one of the most beautiful, thought provoking movies that I have ever seen.  You must see it.  And when you do, you will either love it or hate it.  It will put you in a funk.  It will make you think.  Think about God.  About how we wonder where He is sometimes.  Why He lets things happen.  Why we grow up in the places and with the people we do.  How we deal with childhood and adulthood.  What makes us happy and how we deal with grief.

It is not your typical movie.

There is not a lot of dialog and what you do hear is mostly whispered.

It's slow and thoughtful.

It's a little bizarre.

The majority of the beginning of the film is "creation" and once you get past that you delve into the thoughts and memories of a man who was once young.  You will skip around his past, as he thinks back about his childhood.

If you keep in mind that the film is a series of memories and as in real life, our memories don't always play in chronological thought, but we tend to jump around.  Little snippets here and there.  You'll be better off.

Directed by Terrance Malick (The Thin Red Line, The New World) it is filmed in his signature style of all natural light and some of the special effects that you may think are CGI, have actually been created and filmed using bygone optical and practical methods.  The superb cinematography is rounded out by spectacular performances by Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain.

I don't want to tell you much more.  It is a film you need to experience for yourself.  You need to let it wash over you and you need to absorb it in your own way.

Rent it now!  Make sure that you can devote 2&1/2 hours of your life, uninterrupted.  Put the kids to bed, this is not one for them.  Turn your phone off and your TV volume UP!  Turn the lights off, get comfortable and enjoy.  It's well worth your time.