Review of The Tree of Life (2011) by Dylan D — 08 Mar 2018
The Tree of Life isn't a movie by conventional standards, but an art piece of random pieces of footage that says "look at me and come up with your own answer". It is a pathetic excuse for a movie. It lacks even the most basic components necessary to call something a movie. It is the only movie off the top of my head that I have called pretentious, because this is the very definition of the word.
The Tree of Life is a jumbled mess of footage from 2001 A Space Odyssey, to some family from Texas. Why do I need to see the creation of the universe and life to understand the hardship of a 1950's family? I don't know. Why should I care about anything that happens to these people when the lack of any kind of narrative, or structure robs me of understanding why i'm watching them in the first place? I don't know. Why does Sean Penn show up like 5 times for completely pointless scenes that have nothing to do with anything? I don't know. What was the ending? I don't know.
This is literally all this movie is. Footage without any kind of cohesion that insists that its greater than it is. But it's nothing. It does nothing, it shows nothing, it says nothing, it's a great big beautiful spectacle of nothing.
This review of The Tree of Life (2011) was written by Dylan D on 08 Mar 2018.
The Tree of Life has generally received positive reviews.
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