Wednesday 13 July 2011

The Tree Of Life

Cast
Brad Pitt
Sean Penn
Jessica Chastain
Hunter McCracken
Tye Sheridan
Jackson Hurst
Screenwriter
Terrence Malick
Director
Terrence Malick
Running Time
139 mins

The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

The film is sort of in four parts. The first a little dull the second baffling but visually interesting the third, the longest one, was good once you get used to the idea that there'll be no normal dialogue scenes and the fourth was weird.