Tree of life

I’ve seen the tree of life about a year or so ago. It is an incredibly long and tedious movie, but it is well worth it. I found it to be very similar to Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is because it contains long elaborate scenes that don’t always have music to go along with them. In this sense it caused me to think more about the meaning behind the story.

To be honest I never really noticed the connections to Job in the bible until class today. It makes me happy to see that the bible can be portrayed in such a… unique and creative way. I’m not saying that it’s bad, if you mistook my tone there. It is absolutely brilliant.  

On top of all this the film is absolutely beautiful picture wise. They made the story seem so realistic and genuine. In some ways it caused me to connect to it more because it was written to take place in a more current time period. The everyday life that is taking place in this film is represented in a more artistic way that many people don’t have the patients to watch.

But that’s what I love.