TREE OF LIFE

I AM SICK OF THE SUMMER MOVIES WITH VAMPIRES, TALKING CARS, FIGHTING MACHINES AND ZOMBIES.

I WOULD LOVE A CHANGE OF PACE - AN INTROSPECTIVE LOOK AT AN AMERICAN
FAMILY AND THE VARIOUS DYNAMICS THAT THESE PEOPLE GENERATE TOWARD
EACH OTHER AS THEY AGE AND MOVE ON IN LIFE.

UNFORTUNATELY, TREE OF LIFE, IS NOT THAT PICTURE.

I WOULD LOVE TO WAX POETIC ABOUT THE GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL INSIGHTS
I GATHERED FROM THIS SERIOUS WORK OF ART -

BUT

I MUST SADLY REPORT THAT THE EMPEROR IS ROAMING THE STREETS OF AMERICA, SANS THE APPROPRIATE GARMENTS.

IF I WROTE A BEAUTIFUL LETTER TO A WOMAN I LOVED, IT WOULD BASICALLY
BE -- A BEAUTIFUL LETTER TO A WOMAN I LOVED. YOU WOULD BE HARD PRESSED
TO BROADEN IT OUT TO EMBRACE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS.

THIS FILM WAS GREAT IF YOU WERE A MEMBER OF THIS BRAD PITT FAMILY, OTHERWISE, YOU COULD BE HOME WATCHING RERUNS OF LAW AND ORDER
OR WORLD'S DUMBEST DRIVERS.

IT IS PRETTY TO LOOK AT AND IT TOLD US THAT FAMILIES HAVE ISSUES NOT
EASILY UNDERSTOOD OR RESOLVED -- BUT THOSE OF US OVER AGE 6 HAVE
PRETTY MUCH FIGURED THAT OUT BY NOW ON OUR OWN.

THE FILM TOOK US NO WHERE WORTH GOING -- A PRETTY RIDE AROUND THE BLOCK AND
TWO HOURS LATER, WE WERE NO BETTER OFF FOR THE EXPERIENCE.

WE MIGHT WANT TO PRAISE THIS FILM, FOR IT SEEMS SINCERE AND WELL MADE, IT APPEARS TO BE MORE A POEM THAN A MOTION PICTURE, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE QUESTION THAT WILL BRING YOU BACK TO REALITY IS --

WOULD YOU WANT TO SIT THRU THIS FILM AGAIN?

PERSONALLY, I WOULD SOONER CUT DEEP INTO A VEIN AND LET
NATURE TAKE OVER.
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SEAN PENN DISLIKES THE MOVIE & HE IS IN AS A CO-STAR !

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/21/sean-penn-tree-of-life_n_932650.html

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