I watched this last night and it was fantastic. It was like a cross between A24 and Malick.

"If this is anyone but Terrence Malick, you're stealing my technique!"

Did Terrence Malick direct this?

Looks awesome (and extremely Terrence Malicky). It's kind of mind-blowing that we've gone from waiting decades for a new film from Malick, to having two in two years (with one more on the pipeline!)

*promote

Man shut up you don't know dick about film. Probably jerk off to Tree of Life and talk about how much of a genius Terrance Malick is. You're gonna sit there and say with a straight face that the Schumacher and Burton Batmans were better?! Just walk away now you very very dumb man.

Since when did Terry Malick start directing PSA's?

Cute little video, tho.

>> ^shuac:

This is going to sound like criticism but it's really not. It's more like an observation: PTA appears to be leaving behind the style that brought him (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) and headed into Terrence Malick territory (There Will Be Blood, The Master) with Punch Drunk Love as a bridge betwixt the two styles.
So my question is this: why is my refrigerator making that weird noise?


"Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?"

why don't you catch it.>> ^shuac:

This is going to sound like criticism but it's really not. It's more like an observation: PTA appears to be leaving behind the style that brought him (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) and headed into Terrence Malick territory (There Will Be Blood, The Master) with Punch Drunk Love as a bridge betwixt the two styles.
So my question is this: why is my refrigerator making that weird noise?

This is going to sound like criticism but it's really not. It's more like an observation: PTA appears to be leaving behind the style that brought him (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia) and headed into Terrence Malick territory (There Will Be Blood, The Master) with Punch Drunk Love as a bridge betwixt the two styles.

So my question is this: why is my refrigerator making that weird noise?

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First off I think its a beautifully shot film. The use of natural light in all the scenes. The space stuff that was just incredible.

But it's flawed and lacking in ambition.

I understand Malick was essentially channeling his childhood, his brother a guitar player went to Spain and committed suicide. Much of the shots of his childhood and mother are very influenced about how we remember events, the slight of hands, the lack of narrative for purely idealized scenes.

I think treating his parents in such clear cut lines diminishes the impact for me, the father is abusive but there is only one film to really show that. Some scenes of the kids succedding at school to then not being acknowledged by the father could have helped here. His mother is essentially an atypical angelic character which is just lazy.

I understand what he was trying to do, I understand the sincerity which alot of people mistook for prentious. But I don't think it builds up a very defined picture of the family, the lead child especially lacks any dimensionality, seems to be constantly brooding.

There are alot of unnecessary scenes as well. Whole sections dedicated to the kids playing that go on for too long. It felt like he shot much more and then cut around stuff so much feels disjointed. But this could be deliberate as well since this is like recollection of memories by Sean Penn. But it doesn't travel in time, so my weird assumption by the end is that everyone died at one point. I would have liked more time phases. But it looks like he focused specifically on time period.

The ending is the worst, where it just jumping into straight Judeo Christianic scenes. The dinosaurs?? Why? What did add? I wanted to laugh when I saw it.

Favourite moment, the child playing guitar with his father on the piano. Beautiful.

>> ^MaxWilder:

Long, slow, boring, massive tangents, non-sensical jumps around in time, preachy, plotless... I could go on.
Look, I have no problem with people who want to make films like this, but as a lover of the traditional three act Hollywood style, I just want somebody to warn me! Do I have to memorize the director's names to see through the marketing hype? Or should I just assume that any film that wins an award at Cannes is something I should avoid?


Most people who see Malick's name knows the film may lean toward the philosophical, but TOL was by far his most abstract film to date. I loved it (for reasons mentioned above), and I don't typically like films without a classic 3 Act narrative.

Sure thing.

>> ^blankfist:

When you check out Tree of Life, or if you do, would you mind swinging by here and laying down your take on the movie: http://cinema.videosift.com/talk/Anyone-else-see-Malick-s-Tree-of-Life
Cheers.

When you check out Tree of Life, or if you do, would you mind swinging by here and laying down your take on the movie: http://cinema.videosift.com/talk/Anyone-else-see-Malick-s-Tree-of-Life

Cheers.