"The Tree of Life - for most people either one of the best or one of the worst films they've ever seen. Completely incomprehensible to some but visually stunning to all. This highly ambitious project by Terrence Malick goes back all the way to 1970s but finally saw the light in 2011 baffling the audience with it's combination of family drama, existential themes and what seems more like a nature documentary. Even today most people don't know what to make of it..." The rest of this video essay about this movie you can see/hear in a video I put a link to at the end of the review. A must watch after you watch the movie. There is just so much to take in with this movie, you just have to look deeper beyond it's face value. And even then there is so many ways you can interpret it. A truly unique piece of art you can experience by yourself now."The Tree of Life - Crafting an Existential Masterpiece"

This is Terence Mallick's magnus opus in my opinion- and yes, I am aware of the fact that this is Malick I speak of, a man who has made some masterpieces. Tree of Life encompasses everything- from the search of purpose and meaning to the beginning and end of time itself. Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain and the kids all are more than competent and would have jumped at the chance of working with a master. Beautifully shot as only Malick can(the camera flows so smoothly) and containing what I consider one of the most important sequences(beginning of time) ever put on film The Tree of Life is a work of art.

Here's the second time I watched the " Tree of Life" and one thing I don't understand. How can someone take such a different approach to the film when it watched it at different times of life? It didn't leave a good impression on me the first time when I watched it. How did I make such a big mistake? This film shows the deepest abyss of the human soul, and especially well depicts one state of the soul, which we called mourning. Happy are the one who has not experienced the loss of a close person, and who can not understand all the horror which this film shows, and those will say, a boring movie. These are lucky ones. Others, however, when hearing the sounds of "Requiem" by Hector Berlioz, will remain deeply affected by the truth that this film is nothing but a gloomy walk through the hell of a soul that experienced death. All those volcanoes, sea depths, unreal images of the universe, only reflect one atmosphere, the atmosphere of deep despair, hopelessness and loneliness. And then suddenly the voice of the mother who says ... my son. In the film,there is a lot of intertwine frames that show the family life with the outside world , the world of secrets, after death's life , about the God whom we constantly ask a questions, and we remain without answers, about a deep pain. Music has magnificently evoked the fear, sadness and loneliness that are the backbone of this film. In short, this movie completely ruined me. This is the first movie to whom I give a 10 points on IMDB site.

The movie that I saw was The Tree of Life. This film was directed by Terrance Mallick in the year 2011. He has also directed a similar film like The Voyage of Time. The message that the director is trying to portray in this film is that events in your childhood make you the person you are today. On one particular scene Jack's father is showing him how to "be a man" but this all built up on how his relationship with his father is not a very good one. While Jack and his father were arguing the shots that the director took was at a low angle, showing their whole body. The director also zooms in on the actor's faces so the audience can see their facial expressions. Terrance Mallick mostly films at the house where Jack grew up showing his childhood. The events that occur in Jack's life shows how he grows each day as an individual. The actors did do a good job on the role each of them had to portray, it seemed to come naturally each time they spoke. Each shot that the director took helped create the message of this story because it shows how his brother died and how he and his family bared with it. A shot that caught my attention was when the mother found out that one of her children died. You see her running around screaming which is how most would predict how a mother would react over her child. I would give The Tree of Life eight out of ten stars because I feel that there can be room for improvement to make this movie better.