The beauty of spirituality praises the shocking torrent of emotion

On May 16, 2011 local time in France, the Cannes Film Festival's main competition unit was shortlisted, and "The Poet of Film" director Terrence Malick's masterpiece "The Tree of Life" was unveiled in Cannes. How important director Malik's new film is in Cannes, one thing is enough to illustrate: a few days ago, the Hollywood super-production "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" was screened, and before the screening, media reporters could enter the theater without queuing. And "The Tree of Life" was shown in the Lumiere Hall, the largest cinema hall in the same film palace. Half an hour before the film was shown, the cinema hall was full, and some high-level media reporters were very concerned because they arrived late and had no seats. dissatisfied. For two hours and eighteen minutes, director Malick uses beautiful shots to combine the magnificence of natural cycles and the complexities of human nature and spirituality into a magnificent long poem. The film evoked the same reaction from audiences as many great art films: some people stayed away after watching the end credits, and some made disapproving noises at the end.

The film tells that the sad news came that the second son of O'Brien's family passed away unfortunately. Both his parents and the eldest son Jack fell into grief. Jack kept reminiscing about his growth in the reinforced concrete building. The film abandons the ordinary linear narrative and adopts a narrative method similar to human stream of consciousness, adding the whispers and calls of nature, religion and spirituality in the continuous human growth experience.

Throughout the film, in the story describing Jack's growth, it can be seen that the director has given up the concept of "shooting" the film, but simply uses the camera to capture the natural behavior of children in Nissan's life and the changes in parents' emotions, brother. The feelings of intimacy and hostility at times, the unease and guilt during sexual development, all these most subtle emotional changes and experiences, the director adopted an air-neutral attitude, recorded these clips with a camera, and then recreated them. Fragments are drawn into stunningly beautiful images. If you see the warmth between the strong family affection and the sparkle of human nature in the image, then it must be the essence of the characters themselves, and what can discover all this is to hide behind the camera and the director life, a generous love of people.

Apart from the theme of "human beings, the way of divinity", in order to express the motif of "the way of nature", the director did not hesitate to use tens of minutes of special effects to artistically reproduce the Big Bang and the birth of life on earth until The emergence and extinction of dinosaurs. The way of expression cannot be said to be unprecedented, but it is shocking enough. Such a long section of exquisite CGI special effects can be said to be very risky. Those who don’t like it are likely to leave the stage, but the director still presents it to everyone without hesitation, insisting on the freedom of artistic expression. Visible.

Inheriting his consistent lens beauty, every shot of "The Tree of Life" is so clear and transparent that every frame can be captured and made into a postcard. Not to mention those magnificent natural landscapes, such as oceans, deserts, canyons, when the characters in the film such as Sean Penn and the heroine walk in the open nature, the pictures themselves already have some kind of inspiration and spirituality, Breathtaking.

The whole film contains many religious images and languages. The opening chapter is the words of God's answer to Job's question in the Book of Job. This passage also explains very well that people constantly question the Creator because of their fate, and finally accept their fate. regain the faith.

At the post-screening press conference, director Terrence Malik, as all the packed media reporters expected, didn't show up. Brad Pitt, the protagonist of the film, had to use simple language to explain to the master many questions about religion, life, spirituality and religion in the film, but the effect was not very satisfactory.

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