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Watch: The Tree of Life 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith..
Plot: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 177,845
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2678 Popularity: 17.08 | TMDB

Reviews:

Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is an attempt to inject some cosmic wonder into the most mundane American story.

In the 1950s, two parents bring up three boys in an American white middle-class, small-town existence. The mother (Jessica Chastain) radiates love and warmth, while the father (Brad Pitt) feels the obligation to be cold and distant in order to prepare his sons for the cruel world that awaits them. As we are informed at the beginning of the film, sometime during this mid-century upbringing, one of the boys would eventually die. We are also shown flashfowards to the present day, when the eldest son Jack, now a successful architect working in New York City, reflects on the death of his brother decades ago. There is very little conventional spoken dialogue in this family drama. The story is told through voiceovers on top of a rich series of images, these monologues representing the inner thoughts, doubts and fears of the characters.

But Malick adds something on top of this, one of the most controversial turns in Hollywood filmmaking in recent years. Early on we are treated to a depiction of the creation of the universe and of life on Earth, from the initial clouds of gas right after the Big Bang to small nebulae, then big galaxies like our own Milky Way, the Earth as an inchoate ball of lava, life arising in tidepools, and then into the era of the dinosaurs. These special effects were created by Douglas Trumbull, best known for the cosmic visuals of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The titles of the film quote from the Book of Job: “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth, when the morning stars sang together?”

I get what Malick is trying to do here, that is, to show that the trials and tribulations of an individual human life are part of some vast unknown plan. Nonetheless, while I can understand this on an intellectual level, the film does not seem to reconcile the two layers into a single coherent plot. The film is indeed a visual feast on a first viewing (a high-definition release watched on a projector is nearly as stunning as 2001), but the The Tree of Life is much harder to sit through on a repeat viewing when one knows that it doesn’t quite hang together. Furthermore, as thought-provoking as the story of the boys’ 1950s upbringing is, the last part with its scenes of petty delinquency goes on forever and should have been cut. Finally, the ending which I won’t spoil here is a total trope, not at all a fresh take on the meaning of life.

At a time when Hollywood is widely regarded as stagnant, I can appreciate a director like Malick who seeks to do something unexpected, but I find The Tree of Life to be rather a noble failure.

A movie that wants to mean more than what is actually telling.

Taking a lot of things borrowed from 2001, it doesn’t even come close to have such a deep an interesting meaning.

Epic and Exasperating?
Where to even begin with The Tree of Life? Any release from Terence Malick is highly anticipated because, let’s face it, “prolific” is not exactly his middle-name. Malick’s output of 5 Films in the best part of thirty years makes Stanley Kubrick look like a Roger Corman protégé. Ostensibly, The Tree of Life is the story of a young family growing up in 1950′s Texas. Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain are the parents of three boys living the suburban life. Whilst, Sean Penn plays the grown up older son reminiscing over these times. Here is where any attempt to continue with a plot synopsis collapses under the weight of the films impressionistic non-linear structure.

The Tree of life is a fundamentally polarising experience of the highest order. There will be those who view it as a mess. A sentimental, art-farty shambles. A two hour long perfume commercial stuffed with “meaningful” abstract shots and scenes. A melange of whispered preposterous platitudes and pretentious, “meaning of life” and infuriatingly glib sentimentality. They’ll think it’s rambling, mawkish, misjudged, ill-disciplined, lacking any narrative cohesion and packed with the kind of heavy handed-symbolism best left to a 6th form Emo’s poetry. They’ll think it’s the work of a director who’s lost the plot up his own arse and submitted a self-indulgent soufflé of a film that’ll stretch their patience to breaking point. They will hate it. And, they’ll have a point.

There will be others though who view The Tree of Life as an elegiac meditation on memory and grief. They’ll think it’s a lyrical and visual poem. They’ll see discussions of familial remembrance, the friction between father and son, the birth of morality, the Universe and universal truths. They’ll see a beautifully meandering and melancholic ode that eschews traditional narrative for a sumptuous visual lyricism that washes over them. They’ll be prepared to lie-back and let it take them to more melancholic and meditative shores. They will love it. And, they’ll have a point.

Guess, which side I fell on.

The Tree Of Life Is A Miracle
The film is already part of my subconscious. The pungent focus on a microscopic nucleus is as powerful as it is recognizable. The film renewed my love for film in one single viewing. It s a profoundly religious experience without being “fundamentalist” in any way. An artist’s view made of distant memories who live in a permanent present. Brad Pitt is astonishing. That Irish-American, Catholic father from the 1950’s is an X ray into something we’ve never seen, not on film that is. He arrives to levels of unimaginable clarity with very few words. It reminded of my father talking about his own father. I wept like a child. Jessica Chastain is also superb and the children, quite extraordinary. I can’t wait to see it again.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 19 min (139 min), 3 hr 8 min (188 min) (Extended Cut), 3 hr 9 min (189 min) (extended cut)
Budget 32000000
Revenue 54674226
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Fantasy
Director Terrence Malick
Writer Terrence Malick
Actors Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 116 wins & 130 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS, Dolby Surround 7.1
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime and Ultra Prime Lenses, Arricam ST, Zeiss Master Prime and Ultra Prime Lenses, Arriflex 235, Zeiss Master Prime and Ultra Prime Lenses, Arriflex 435, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Dalsa Evolution, IMAX MSM 9802, Panavision 65 HR Camera, Panavision System 65 Lenses, Phantom HD Gold, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Red One Camera, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses (some shots)
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (also prints), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Laser Pacific Media Corporation, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Film Length 3,794 m (France), 3,824 m, 3,824 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218), 65 mm (also horizontal) (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218), Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital (4K) (source format) (some shots), Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), IMAX (source format) (some scenes), Panavision Super 70 (source format) (some scenes), Redcode RAW (4K) (source format) (some shots), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna-CP 3523XD), D-Cinema