The film is full of philosophical inner monologues and beautiful and imaginative images. Terrence Malick's understanding and expressiveness of images and music is admirable. The most moving thing about his images is not the beauty of the colors and composition, but the vitality of each frame. Malik has upgraded the simple physical movement to the artistic level of scene scheduling. The diffusion and deep movement of the material in the shots not only give people a visual impact, but also feel the rhythm of life in the shot scheduling. ()
Brad Pitt showed his best acting skills since his debut: mature, concise, perfect, breathtaking. The seemingly unremarkable plot of a TV soap opera shows a grand and mysterious metaphorical power in Terrence Malik's movie, which closely reflects the deep thinking of human beings on the meaning of life. The film will become another masterpiece in film history.
The rhythm of the film was slow and solemn, and the audience fully understood what the director wanted to say. The broad fatalistic philosophy is successfully embodied through extremely ordinary plots. What is commendable is that the audience will not be bored by the old-fashioned plot, but will empathize because of the dailyization of the story, and fully feel the distress and joy of the characters in the film.
The film is not like a film made in the United States at all. No matter how you look at it, it is not a commercial film that can make a lot of money. But the perfect performance of the two actors made the philosophy simple and straightforward. There is nothing more pleasant than looking at Brad Pitt's mature and elegant face and thinking about the meaning of life. However, for those audiences who came to the cinema for the film rather than the actors, it is happily that the shining stars of the actors did not steal the light of the film itself. The actors clearly know what they are going to do, and the director clearly limits their influence on the film to the expected range. All in all, this is a "Malik movie", not a "Brad Pitt movie."
"The Tree of Life" is a rare work with a concise plot that makes it difficult to understand easily. The film is full of metaphors, and the audience needs a lot of patience to watch it from beginning to end. The director replaced the usual narrative techniques with flashback memories and intermittent dialogues, which was very thoughtful, but also aggravated the incomprehensibility of the film. ()
