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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The Tree of Life quotes

  • Father Haynes: Do you trust in God? Job too, was close to the Lord. Are your friends and children, your security? There is no hiding place in all the world where trouble may not find you. No one knows when sorrow might visit his house, any more than Job did. At the very moment everything was taken away from Job. He knew it was the Lord who had taken it away.

  • Mr. O'Brien: The world lives by a trigger. If you want to succeed, you can't be too good!