The Tree of Life
Rating :
Director :
Terrence Malick
Date :
2024-10-21
Country :
🇺🇸
(United States)
(First) Release Date :
2011-05-27
IMDb :
tt0478304
Comment :
It's complicated. A film I return to from time to time but never had that patience to watch without skipping uninteresting parts.
The film is strangely simultaneously very bad - extremely bad - and very good - good in a unique way. It's pretentious but not really.
I especially like how the father is depicted and the tension between the son and the father; it's deeply moving. On this point alone this film is worthy of a watch. It's not one of those highbrow films, and moreover under a seemingly pretentious mask there truly is something that's... hard to describe.
Disagree on several points with others (maybe with Malick included) about the theme of this film and I can't read anything like grace vs law there. But whatever.
The film is strangely simultaneously very bad - extremely bad - and very good - good in a unique way. It's pretentious but not really.
I especially like how the father is depicted and the tension between the son and the father; it's deeply moving. On this point alone this film is worthy of a watch. It's not one of those highbrow films, and moreover under a seemingly pretentious mask there truly is something that's... hard to describe.
Disagree on several points with others (maybe with Malick included) about the theme of this film and I can't read anything like grace vs law there. But whatever.