The Tree of Life

The film is already part of my subconscious. The pungent focus on a microscopic nucleus is as powerful as it is recognizable. The film renewed my love for film in one single viewing. It s a profoundly religious experience without being "fundamentalist" in any way. An artist's view made of distant memories who live in a permanent present. Brad Pitt is astonishing. That Irish-American, Catholic father from the 1950's is an X ray into something we've never seen, not on film that is. He arrives to levels of unimaginable clarity with very few words. It reminded of my father talking about his own father. I wept like a child. Jessica Chastain is also superb and the children, quite extraordinary. I can't wait to see it again.

go to you-tube find a video of beautiful images from the world. Play some ridiculous opera music. open a bible and start reading random lines for two and a half hours. now if anyone asks if you have seen this movie you can say YES. I sat threw the entire thing somehow even though my gut was telling me to leave the entire time. The first 30 minuets had no useful dialog to a movie that had no plot/point. Somehow this movie got good reviews which is the only part of the movie that made me think. I though, am I just not getting it, is this movie above me? No it's not. movie critics are for some reason afraid to give bad reviews to a movie like this that is supposed to be "artsy" and supposed to make you think. they leave there bad reviews for "stupid" movies like vampires suck or hot chick. All they're doing is playing it safe, saying if i give this a bad review and others give it good reviews will people think I am dumb, that i don't understand this movie. well there is nothing to understand about this movie. it sucks. its plain and simple a terrible movie. a waste of your life. There is nothing good about it trust me there is a reason that people who are not movie critics are giving this a 1 out of 10 hell i would give this a 0 out of ten if i could... its not about saving your money its about saving 2 hours of your life. Trust me Don't SEE THIS MOVIE.

This film was awful. Terrible. A waste of time. I find it ridiculous that there are so many posts defending this film. It seems there are so many people out there who are fully ready to take in pointless stories and label them "deep" (by which they mean "made no sense whatsoever, which must mean its beyond our grasp") I can forgive some films that choose form over content but not this. Where it isn't ripping off shots from documentaries like "Home" (I/2009) and "Planet Earth" and concepts from classics such as "2001", it is trying desperately to convey some sort of painful story with minimal basic dialogue and endless monologues of pointless drivel. Yes, parts of the cinematography were beautiful, the acting (especially from such young boys) was impressive, yet there was not one SINGLE original idea when it came to the script. There was absolutely no motivation for the viewer to stay glued to the screen. It was more a case of:, "Ooh, this woman is grieving for her dead son, but it doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things cos' there were also once dinosaurs roaming the Earth and there are big explosions and...here's a shot of orange smoke...you figure all this out since I couldn't be bothered." Really deep stuff... I actually paid money to see this. Argh. And also - 8.0 out of 10? That's weird, that's seriously weird.

After seeing this movie, I sincerely cannot comprehend all the hype and the excellent reviews that it has attracted. The only way I can explain such good reviews is that whoever wrote them have either been generously paid to do so or were high on dope while doing so. This was the first time ever I have felt so angry about wasting my time and money watching a bad movie. The only reason the movie may have attracted so much attention is the fact that Brad Pitt and Sean Penn were acting in it. However, I felt that their talents were completely wasted on one of the most pointless and most boring movies I've ever seen. Usually, I can sit through a bad movie, but this one bored me immensely within the first 10 min. I still do not understand what the director was trying to portray with the shots of volcanoes, planets, dinosaurs (terrible animation versions) and jellyfish (??). Half of those shots appeared to be borrowed from the Planet Earth series, except portrayed in an incomprehensible and boring manner. There was not a single instance that kept my attention and interest. I was especially irritated by the fact that the movie had a very strong religious streak, which the "good" reviews did not mention. The entire movie was a bunch of disconnected, pointless scenes thrown together, and the ending was especially annoying, with everybody in the family ending up in 'heaven'. I would compare the movie to those useless pieces of contemporary art that depict a monochromatic shape in the middle of a canvas, and attempt to convince us that there is some deeper bullshit meaning to it. I am particularly angry at all the reviewers that rated this movie so well. This movie is a total rip-off!