From Apple:
From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic [of course -Ed] story of a Midwestern family in the 1950′s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years (Sean Penn) as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt).
Impressionism, as Terrence Malick understands it: Film tracking shots of characters from behind as they walk towards bright sunlight. Reverse angle. Close up of them brooding. Repeat.
Additional trivia: According to IMDB, the alternate title of Malick’s The New World in the Philippines is “Apocalypto 2.” Now that’s funny.
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If the plot synopsis sounds like Armond White wrote it in high school, your movie is in trouble.
Malick has the worst narrators since the voice in my head that tells me to burn things.
/Badlands and Days of Heaven were pretty good though
//John Travolta in Thin Red Line was fucking terrible
Brad Pitt as Sean Penn’s dad almost one ups Angelina Jolie as Colin Farrell’s mom.
“With The Tree of Life Terrence Malick literally explores a brave ‘New World’ of filmmaking!”
— Pete Hammond
Brad Pitt can be my daddy any day.
-Oedipus St. James
Brad Pitt was so great in that recent movie where he grabs Jolie’s ass on the red carpet. For a minute there I thought he was choosing his projects wisely.
Throw in an imaginary Tiger and let’s talk.
Shouldn’t Sean Penn be playing the jerk dad?
I’m just saying, guy’s kind of an ass.
[Walks out of bright light, grenade on belt explodes]
AAAAHHHH FUCK!! I JUST BLEW OFF MY ASS!! AAAHHHH!!
All of Penn’s scenes were filmed in Haiti, ya?
This should be another Edgar Allen Poe movie, ’cause the Pitt and the Penn is dumb.
(Sean Penn) as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt)
I can see how being younger than him would make a relationship with your father complicated.
I have it on good authority that Zak Efron will be cast to play Sean Penn’s grandfather.
Emma Watson is his mom.
So this is when Benjamin Button goes on his walkabout and turns into John Wayne Gacy?
Let’s just say that Emma Watson don’t need to go nowhere near no trees of no kind to give me wood, gnome sayin’?
Cmon, high-five y’all… y’all?
Oh comeon you guys- you’re all so jaded.
This actually looks great.
In the deep south they don’t have any trees of life. They just have “rope tyin’ sticks.”
I think I would be more interested in watching the life of trees. Starring Mel Gibson in barkface.
The Ugly Tree of Life.
This March, Maggie Gyllenhaal falls.
I don’t get it what the fuck is this movie about? are there robots? aliens? angels? elves? is there some quest? forbidden love? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MOVIE ABOUT?
@ Patty Boots
But I also see him doing a sensitive role if the script calls for it. Let’s not forget he’s also good at acting like a bitch. I meant on film but take that how you want to.
In the South the “tree of life” is called a “lynchin’ log”.