"Dissolve God"

Mossie 2022-03-21 09:01:46

I guess a lot of the reason a lot of people didn't like the movie came from confusion about how it was narrated (shot). Terrence Malick is no doubt a director of pretense, but he did it quite well this time. If you keep watching the whole movie, you will eventually discover its close relationship with religion. After generalizing the theme of religion, it is actually showing the relationship between the creator and the created. This presentation is blocked by the prose and poetic jumping plot, but many of the upside-down shots and the imagery of facing the sun, caves, and doors are clearly intended, and the voiceover is even more straightforward. From God and Lamb, parent and child, universe and microbes, life and death to magma and sea, sky and earth, brother and brother, Terrence Malick has dissolved God. He acknowledges that there is a creator, but the creator becomes nothing at the end of the film. On the contrary, the pure human emotion of "love" is finally filtered. In the prophet-like pictures and holy songs, "The Tree of Life" sings the magic of life itself in another extreme way. It informs the world that the life-sustaining The Force does not come from faith or God himself, God may have created everything, but there is something more powerful than God who survives it all and learns to think.
Jumping out of the movie itself, if God is a programmer or an actuary, then the behavior of human beings to doubt God is also preset. This is a kind of "Godism" that can be extended indefinitely. The Tree of Life may have been a question with no answer, but sitting in class and raising your hand is respectable enough in itself.
February 8, 2012

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Extended Reading
  • Orland 2022-03-24 09:01:41

    It is a whisper of personal details and a peaceful and romantic universe. The unrestricted expression of emotions expands the real world and the imaginary world, and is a lyrical epic that can no longer be expressed in words. It not only explores the reasons for the occurrence of emotions, but also explores the indescribable chaos in the subconscious realm of human beings. What is poetry? It's useless, it's memory, it's history, it's too late to hug you, it has been annihilated in an instant.

  • Kianna 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    【A】It is probably a movie that I can't summarize in my whole life. It is not "writing poetry with images", because it is just the purest expression of images, and it is an artistic carrier that can keep pace with literature. Childhood memories, the pulse of life, the collision of ideas, the fusion of emotions, the rift of death, the macroscopic view of the universe, the birth of life, the interweaving of time. In fact, I never thought that all the propositions arising from the relationship between human beings and the universe could be expressed in detail by a film. Perhaps it is this extreme simplification of formalism that makes the image itself in the macro and micro levels. The collision and fusion of radiates such charm. Maybe that's what makes the movie so great...

The Tree of Life quotes

  • Young Jack: [voice over] I didn't know how to name You then. But I see it was You. Always You were calling me.

  • Father Haynes: He is in God's hands, now.

    Mrs. O'Brien: He was in God's hands the whole time. Wasn't he?