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 Post subject: The Tree Of Life
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:16 am 
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This film has such a scattered release date globally. Considering that it has released in the US, has anyone living in the US seen the film yet? It doesn't release in Toronto, Canada atleast until next week Friday(the 17th). Waiting for a new Terrence Malick film is an event unparalleled by any other living filmmaker on the face of the earth.


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 Post subject: Re: The Tree Of Life
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I saw it on Saturday. Its a beautiful and amazing film.


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 Post subject: Re: The Tree Of Life
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:27 am 
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I envy you. Though, my next question is on the same level of a fat kid wanting to know how the new brand choclate tastes? A question to which one already knows the answer to, but the inquisitive mind never rests. Without giving too much away, tell us more about this film?


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 Post subject: Re: The Tree Of Life
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:30 am 
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Better yet. Don't answer my question. I'll leave the experience for myself.


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 Post subject: Re: The Tree Of Life
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:26 pm 
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A friend of mine who lives in Austin, TX met Terrence Malick and shook his hand at a screening. Envy him instead!

All I will say is expect a totally unconventional and meditative experience.


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 Post subject: Re: The Tree Of Life
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:00 pm 
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DragunR2 wrote:
All I will say is expect a totally unconventional and meditative experience.

That's what I love about a "Terrence Malick" film. Their rich in it's study of spiritual nature and romanticism. Ultimately, another common pattern I've found in all of Malick's films is the concept of "ontology" and The Tree Of Life is supposidly a dream project that he' been working on since the 1970s, so accumulatively, this is the IT film for Malick.


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 Post subject: Re: The Tree Of Life
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:50 am 
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Just saw it. This film left me numb at the end. Theirs not that many films that I can recall seeing in my life time so far that have had the ability to grab a hold onto my physical self and state of subconsciousness like this film had. It's like authentically witnessing the work of a truly great artist right before your very eyes. I wonder what Andre Bazin(if he were alive today)would think of The Tree Of Life? Would he consider this film an exercise of "Pure Cinema"?


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