Review of The Tree of Life (2011) by Huseyn B — 03 Oct 2012

Answers to the Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything. The winner of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Jack (McCracken) was born and raised in Paradise, which is in the 50's was located in Texas - there was a spacious house with a white porch, trees, streams, paved roads, lawn sprinklers twice a day raised over lawns rainbow. Jack had two younger brothers, a stern father (Pitt) and mother of such beauty and gentleness, that sometimes she is raised in the air (Chastain). Many years later, battered and grizzled Jack (Penn) who is engaged in a high-paying job, implying a long trip in a glass elevator will remember all these lawns, branches, sunlight, my mother's father's preaching and whispers, and then how all this gradually over.

Nebozhitelsky status Terrence Malick's long-anticipated opportunity to make a film in the genre of a comprehensive structure of the universe, but the real surprise is not that the American Astronomical risked cash this loan, and how phlegmatic and confident to have done so. Using childhood memories as a prism, Malik leisurely university lecturer (who is by first class) formulates them in a universal model of the universe: quarreling in the kitchen mother and father - as both the yin and yang, civilization and nature, dogma and faith. Plug-in reporting about the creation of the world with colorful bacteria, celestial bodies and a pair of charming dinosaurs (become commonplace to compare it with a prologue, "A Space Odyssey", although if no guile - more like a channel Dissovery) - the most controversial part of the aesthetic sense of the "tree" but at the same time - a necessary counterpoint, shielding purely cinematic paradox: "The Tree" - is an epic cosmic scale, the effect of which most of the time limited kitchen and front lawn. However, let them here compliments applied malikovskim talents or tell the operator can drive Lyubetsky camera on the grass so that the then five minutes to choke tears - a slightly lower level of discussion given by the author. "Tree" in a sense, a very banal film as reports that already knows more or less each (except that the scientist Dawkins and staff Patriarchate). The world is arranged simply, beautifully and quite sad. God seems to have, the grass is green. Criticize it - as criticizing the sky above. However, why not, look at the sky, it is interesting.