The Tree of Life: Blu Ray Review
The Tree of Life
Rating: M
Released by Warner Home Video
So, the film which divided critics arrives on small screen
release;with some decrying a lack of real story and others
proclaiming Terrence Malick's a masterpiece on a par with 2001 A
Space Odyssey.
Sean Penn is an eldest son, dealing with memories of his
relationship with his strict religious father(Brad Pitt)and his
easy going mother-but then, you throw in the birth of the universe,
dinosaurs, disparate voices calling out to their God asking where
were you, and shots of Penn stumbling around in an expensive suit
across rocks and it's clear this film is like nothing you'll
see.
Confounding, epic in scale and hypnotically haunting, it's more
cinema as experience than traditional cinema as the memories
unspool and visions flaunt and haunt.
It's bravura filmmaking in the extreme and it's great that cinema
provokes such debate at the end-I promise you though, you will see
nothing else like it this year and will really need to see it to
understand what the debate is all about.
Extras: Exploring the Tree of Life doco
Rating: 5/10
