Review of The Tree of Life (2011) by Noor Z — 31 Dec 2012

Malick's long-awaited impressionistic, sometimes improvisatory collage of Universal wonders, with Mother Nature displaying its endlessly complex evolutionary process in front of the incredibly limited human eye. The Tree of Life is a triumphant work of art for modern American cinema and, despite the fact it carries a couple of big blockbuster actor names with it, it challenges the viewer to spend some hours to think about the complexity of the unknown and unseen, and how our tendency to explain the metaphysical with mystical theories and words precisely resides in the superiority we earn to have over the Creation and faith (just like the repulsive and pretentious Hegelian dialectic).

97/100.