Filming with Poetry and Allegory

Annetta 2022-04-19 09:01:46

If you think the tree of eternal life is extremely ugly, then I think you may not understand the way of watching movies.

I cried until I lost my temper at the theater today. Although the audience left after less than half an hour of The Tree of Life, I think it's because they haven't been able to connect with Terrence Malik's point of view and feeling; it's not anyone's fault, it's just the frequency of each other is wrong.

On the surface, the tree of eternal life is talking about the process of a boy growing up, but more importantly, it is full of emotions, feelings, humanity and more love behind it. Terrence Malick used poetry and allegory to make a movie. The impact of the movie viewing brought by the tree of eternal life is generational. No director dares to make a movie in this way; this makes me feel that it is not just a movie A movie is a poem instead. What you see is not the picture, but the sound, and more things behind it.

The Tree of Eternal Life is of course an art film, but the words he said are not the subject of the creator's self-indulgence, but a reflection that we all experience or feel more or less; Many philosophies and emotions, but he enriches the good and evil of your life.

The director created a new generation of genres, taking the film to a higher level in the artistic stage. After reading it, you will involuntarily imagine, think, and try to recall the pain, sadness, and beauty in your life, all of which will overlap with those sights and sounds in your heart. Then you go back to the origin, and then you rediscover yourself and make a revolution.

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Extended Reading
  • Wilbert 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    3.5 The second time I watched it, I felt a little less contrived, and some of the clips were so good that it was like a searchlight searching for wreckage on the ocean floor—the characters’ feelings and the camera’s description of the perceptible feelings were intertwined. But I really feel that when Malick wanted to shoot such a genius stream of consciousness, he only separated part of his feelings from the characters, but he was still obsessed with letting the old narrative organization (again, Freud's set) exist. , should be more thorough.

  • Clinton 2022-03-22 09:01:40

    It is one thing to have philosophical thinking about life, but it is another thing to photograph this kind of philosophical thinking. This is not an acquired ability, but is completely "gifted". People cannot become gods, but they can use this kind of ability. A kind of "talent" to approach God; of course, it also uses "water" as the main item to express the philosophy of life. Old Ta is more like the "chosen son" than Ma Daxian.

The Tree of Life quotes

  • Prologue: [on screen, unspoken] "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Job 38:4,7

  • Mrs. O'Brien: [pointing to the sky] That's where God lives!