Tree Of Life Trailer

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[quote name='kafka' timestamp='1305776073' post='2243468']
believe me a little spoilers will help, not hurt, with this one. Normally I dont mind. In fact I like to know what it is about so I dont get lured into a bunch of garbage assaulting my senses. I'm a serious movie goer.





BTW another new elegant clip from the movie:

[media]http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1214487833/[/media]

notice how the camera is always moving like a ballet dancer and hitting unusual angles. Not too mention that in under a minute there is a movement of a few years in the life of the characters Very pretty stuff though.

This one is going to take some concentration. I told my date that she will have to nap then load up on espresso.
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I prefer not to see any spoilers before watching the movie, but maybe watch it a second time with the first acting as major spoilers. If the film is worthwhile, it's a good excuse to watch it again, if not, then not.

Was that one [i]continuous[/i] movie clip where it takes leaps of months and years at a time in a few seconds? I'm not used to Malick's films, so I really don't know to expect.

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Was that one [i]continuous[/i] movie clip where it takes leaps of months and years at a time in a few seconds? I'm not used to Malick's films, so I really don't know to expect.
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Yes! Now the whole movie is not going to be like that, but some of it will be like that (I mean part of the movie will cover the whole history of the universe) . The other clip with the mother and children playing with the lizard was basically real time. From what I gather this clip is a sort of transition from the second movement (the history of the universe) to the third movement (life in 1950s Texas) of the movie.

But the movie will be non-linear and cyclical. The key is to not to let that bother you and just sort of immerse yourself in it. His movies are sort of abstract and spiritual. He is going for the core of your being. The place where your soul and body meet. Its like a deep dialogue with the director. And dont worry he wont hurt you. His movies have a very healing, wholesome, peaceful effect.

I better go to bed.



I'm a Malick geek, preaching his movies

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[quote name='kafka' timestamp='1305780209' post='2243496']
Yes! Now the whole movie is not going to be like that, but some of it will be like that (I mean part of the movie will cover the whole history of the universe) . The other clip with the mother and children playing with the lizard was basically real time. From what I gather this clip is a sort of transition from the second movement (the history of the universe) to the third movement (life in 1950s Texas) of the movie.

But the movie will be non-linear and cyclical. The key is to not to let that bother you and just sort of immerse yourself in it. His movies are sort of abstract and spiritual. He is going for the core of your being. The place where your soul and body meet. Its like a deep dialogue with the director. And dont worry he wont hurt you. His movies have a very healing, wholesome, peaceful effect.

I better go to bed.



I'm a Malick geek, preaching his movies





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Say no more, almost 14 billion years in definitely less than two hours...got it.

Good night

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o.k. here is a good example of a non-linear (and very precious) Malick scene from his last movie the New World:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7hHKVrTMY&feature=related[/media]

It begins with John Smith trading with these Indians, and as he is doing this he begins to reflect on his visit with Pocahantas that happens either before or after the trading (since they have Pocahantas sort of captive or owned). As he reflects he begins to deliberate on what he is going to do. The sequence sort of skips around to reflect what is happening in his heart and mind. There is also a lot implied in the overall sequence (not all shown here) like the value of love and being loved by a human person, the vanity, trouble and sorrow of this world, the beauty and immensity of creation, freedom, etc. And it is like you can feel all these things deeply if you are in tune with the movie.

It is a form of art. One thing I love about Malick is that once I understood his movies, I realized that cinema is potentially the greatest form of art. His scenes transcend the effects of poetry, visual art, ballet, music, theater, since they are a synthesis of all these things and more.

Edited May 19, 2011 by kafka

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[quote name='kafka' timestamp='1305847487' post='2243704']
o.k. here is a good example of a non-linear (and very precious) Malick scene from his last movie the New World:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7hHKVrTMY&feature=related[/media]

It begins with John Smith trading with these Indians, and as he is doing this he begins to reflect on his visit with Pocahantas that happens either before or after the trading (since they have Pocahantas sort of captive or owned). As he reflects he begins to deliberate on what he is going to do. The sequence sort of skips around to reflect what is happening in his heart and mind. There is also a lot implied in the overall sequence (not all shown here) like the value of love and being loved by a human person, the vanity, trouble and sorrow of this world, the beauty and immensity of creation, freedom, etc. [u]And it is like you can feel all these things deeply if you are in tune with the movie. [/u]

It is a form of art. One thing I love about Malick is that once I understood his movies, I realized that cinema is potentially the greatest form of art. His scenes transcend the effects of poetry, visual art, ballet, music, theater, since they are a synthesis of all these things and more.
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That's very interesting, it's like a subjective experience pushed on you instead of rather mindlessly watching a movie as if you were watching a edited real life objective scene.

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That's very interesting, it's like a subjective experience pushed on you instead of rather mindlessly watching a movie as if you were watching a edited real life objective scene.
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Yes! Except its not pushed on you, rather you have to want to participate. Some people simply get up and leave after about 15 minutes.



And it can take multiple viewings to really get it. But his stuff is rich so I dont think its a waste of time.

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Yes! Except its not pushed on you, rather you have to want to participate. Some people simply get up and leave after about 15 minutes.



And it can take multiple viewings to really get it. But his stuff is rich so I dont think its a waste of time.
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I think I'm going to watch The New World as well to break what has become a rather monotonous routine of watching popcorn flicks...

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Yay!!!

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Tree of Life won the Palme d'Or.

The most prestigious award at the Cannes Festival.

[ThePenciledOne]

Has anyone seen it yet??

I haven't since it hasn't opened anywhere near me : (

But I found this really good review of it from a friend!

Here it is: [url="http://www.wordonfire.org/WOF-TV/Commentaries-New/Fr-Barron-comments-on-Terrence-Malick-s-Tree-of.aspx"]http://www.wordonfire.org/WOF-TV/Commentaries-New/Fr-Barron-comments-on-Terrence-Malick-s-Tree-of.aspx[/url]

[ThePenciledOne]

Found a theater near me to go see this flick!! I cannot waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!!


Gunna go see it Monday!!!

: DDDDDDDD So stoked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThePenciledOne]

FINALLY SAW THIS LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThePenciledOne]

Review I read here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004A8ZX2S


Last night my wife Kathleen and I were in the Los Angeles audience at a sold-out performance of Terrence Malick's new film, "THE TREE OF LIFE." Crammed into the front row so we had to crane our necks at the enormous screen, I can nevertheless safely say that this movie far exceeded my expectations.

This is a film of staggering genius that ranks with other life-defining encounters I've had with great art. It's a work for the ages that will take its place alongside Beethoven's Seventh, Mozart's 40th, Shakespeare's "HAMLET," T.S. Eliot's "FOUR QUARTETS," Dostoyevsky's "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV," Tolstoy's "WAR AND PEACE," Melville's "MOBY Johnsonville brat," Leonardo da Vinci's "VIRGIN ON THE ROCKS," Victor Hugo's "LES MISERABLES," William Faulkner's "THE SOUND AND THE FURY," Picasso's "GUERNICA," Rodin's "THE LOVERS," Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andrei Tarkovsky's "STALKER," and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY". (It's significant that Douglas Trumball, who created the mindbending special effects for "2001" was a technical advisor for this film's special effects team.)

Malick plumbs the mind of God to bring us glimpses of the universe's genesis--indeed, he shows us the moment when God whispered "Let There Be Light"--while also taking us to the end of days, where all of us will be reunited with our lost loved ones in our Father's house of many mansions. Don't look for a conventional plot. The "plot" is life itself.

Malick evokes cosmic scale by refracting his tale through the prism of one humble, dysfunctional family in Waco, Texas, where Malick himself grew up. I don't know how much of this film is autobiographical. I can say that the 1950s Texas he grew up in looked, in this film, very much like the Waycross, Georgia I grew up in. But never before have I seen a film that so effectively captures a child's birth, growth, and fall from innocence. Never mind that Brad Pitt turns in a stellar performance as the child's bitter, frustrated father. The actors--indeed, all the spoken lines and events--are incidental to the imagistic theme: that we are moving in a repeating pattern of birth, innocence, fall from innocence, decline, death, rebirth and salvation, down through the ages, and time will one day end when God's plan has been fulfilled.

Malick's cinematographer achieves his breathtaking effects by showing people moving in graceful, swirling arcs, much as Kubrick's cinematographer did in the space shuttle sequence in "2001". The camera is always moving, and the movement captured is the dance of life. Curiously, in this film dominated by spellbinding images, a searingly memorable line of dialog comes from the child's mother near the film's end: "You must live with love. If you don't love, your life will pass in a flash." The subtext is clear: love is the point--the alpha and omega--of the universe and its seemingly chaotic rush toward dissolution. And in the end, there is only the Light, as it was in the beginning.

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Saw it today. I really, really hated it. Complete and utter worthless drivel.