Sep 23, 2011

Life Gets Treed

Maybe the most frustrating movie I've seen in many, many years. The Tree of Life.
One commentator on IMDB wrote: 

In August 2011, Sean Penn gave an interview to the French publication "Le Figaro" in which he was very critical of the movie and Terrence Malick's direction. Penn said "I didn't at all find on the screen the emotion of the script, which is the most magnificent one that I've ever read. A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.

     If one of the stars couldn't understand what the movie was about...how are any of US to get anything out of it?
     Another reviewer wrote that the movie demands a lot of viewers..
     Sorry, but if I want to work that hard, I'll go to work.
     My 1 to 10 rating: 1
     And that's because the video is sometimes beautiful....at least up to 35 minutes into it when I gave up.

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