| | |  | Entertainment | Home » » The Tree of Life (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) | | | | | | | Description: | | This stunningly original triumph from visionary director Terrence Malick stars Academy Awardr Nominee Brad Pitt and Academy Awardr Winner Sean Penn. The epic, yet intimate, story follows the life journey of Jack O'Brien (played as an adult by Penn), the eldest son of a fractured Midwestern family. Pitt delivers a powerful performance as the cataclysmic force of nature in Jack's world, his complex and rigidly authoritarian father. Hailed as a visually breathtaking masterpiece by critics and audiences alike, The Tree Of Life won the Cannes Film Festival's highest honor, becoming one of the year's most talked about films. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Fiona Shaw | | Director:
| Terrence Malick | | Format:
| Color | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 3 | | Studio:
| 20th Century Fox | | Run Time:
| 139 minutes | | Blu-ray Release Date:
| October 11, 2011 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 368 reviews |
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228 of 244 found the following review helpful:
 The only way to be happy is to loveOct 17, 2011
By maxquasimodo
What a film means to you kind of depends on where you are in life. I think if saw this film 20 years ago, I probably would have hated it. Now, I'm faced with big decisions - whether to start a family, and all the concerns that come with it. This movie raises issues I'd rather not think about. I almost wish I hadn't seen it. If you're looking for escapist Hollywood fare, the film might seem boring. It plays like a movie where nothing happens. The first third of the film, the director puts you into the head of a mother who has lost a child. Yeah, it's pretty heavy. And most of the rest of the film is of the kids growing up. The film is a meditation, more heavy on emotion than story. And it's more of a spiritual/religious film than a traditional drama. There is little dialogue in the movie. The imagery is compelling, though. Some of the imagery is surreal and dreamlike - and yeah, dinosaurs make an appearance in the film. But it's not Jurassic Park. I wrote down a quote from the film: "The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by." I wouldn't have given a second thought to that if I were a 20-year-old. But I'm older now, and this suddenly means something to me. It's definitely not an upbeat feel-good movie. And to be honest, I probably wouldn't recommend it to my friends and family, even though I couldn't stop watching it.
240 of 273 found the following review helpful:
 What I can't Understand...Sep 26, 2011
By W. Card
"Ben McCormack"
What I can't understand is actually the fuss surrounding this film. People aren't just confused by it, they're acting offended by it. Apparently audiences in a lot of showings were yelling at the screen and snapping at people who tried to shush them. This movie was unusual, but I don't get what caused people to be so actively offended by it when they can sit through most movies, ambitious or otherwise, without any real problem. Is it the norm in our culture now to react to unexpected or strange images on the screen by getting angry and yelling? Could I just go out on a limb and say that if you leave before a film's over or spend the entire time yelling at the screen, I have no respect for your opinion of the film?
Chimps parading as people aside, I at least enjoyed the movie. I saw it late in its run so I never had to worry about an audience yelling at the screen.
I'm the kind of person who's patient. If a movie confuses me I don't flip out or start yelling and ranting; I sit it out. So that's what I did with this movie. I tried my best to see what Malick was doing, because I think it's pretty obvious that such a respected filmmaker would have seen at least some reason for making this movie.
First of all, there's one major reason why this film isn't for everyone and it's not one I've heard anyone else mention:
The film, from top to bottom, is extremely musical. I mean that in many ways, but let me be clearer: The father in the family the story focuses on wanted to be a conductor and dropped off that career path in favor of a secure job. The soundtrack is all very carefully-chosen classical music.
And if you zoom out far enough, the overall structure of the film is actually a very musical one - you could almost see it as some insane variant on sonata form. It's hard to describe, but visual themes resurface at various times in the film in ways that feel very similar to recapitulations in music.
As I said; not for everyone. I picked up on this stuff, but I'm a musician. I loved it.
As far as the images of dinosaurs and the cosmos interspersed in it, my impression was that Malick was trying to show cycles of creation, longing and destruction in frameworks other than those of humans. As I saw it - and this is up for debate - I read the movie as showing a very eastern sort of philosophy; one that involves a sort of reincarnation or continuation beyond the lives and deaths of individuals, species, or even planets.
Call that pretentious if you want, I thought it was done very nicely, though, and I'm very decidedly buying it as soon as it's out on DVD.
Also, I don't get why people bothered yelling at the scenes of the cosmos. If you didn't get it, I still think it was some of the most beautiful visuals I've seen in a film in a really long time. Relax. It's pretty.
146 of 165 found the following review helpful:
An Experience Full of Wonder: Watching Life HappenOct 12, 2011
By Grady Harp
THE TREE OF LIFE is not the usual film - a story that begins, develops, and ends. Yes there is a story here: in a small town (Smithville, Texas) lives a family - a stern, painfully frustrated artist/man who can't seem to succeed in anything for long except raising three boys with his rather quiet passive wife. One of the boys dies and the remaining family enters into a realm of questioning life, both at the time of the death of the child and years later through the experiences of the oldest boy reflecting on the meaning of life, his response to his father, his sense of continuing loss. The setting is in the 1950s - that structureless decade following the horrors of WW II, the unleashing of the atomic bomb, the difficulties of making a living and sacrificing dreams for a reality in a way that changes the way individuals interact not only with outsiders but also with the family unit whose only seeming hope of meaning is relying on religious protocol. Yet even religion seems to fail when the inexplicable tragedy of an innocent child's death changes everything. The journey of the film is the maturing of the eldest son as he grows into a man forever challenged by the meaningless of the loss of his brother and the effect that has on his own maturation.
The power of the film is in the visual and auditory miracles that unfold on the screen. Writer/director Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven, The New World, The Thin Red Line, etc) has gathered images from nature - incredible rock formations, waterfalls, volcanic eruptions, floating jellyfish, night skies, and light in all its forms, among many others - and allows these images to seep into our minds accompanied by the music of John Tavener, Gustav Mahler, Aresnije Jovanovic, Zbigniew Preiser, Hector Berlioz, Gustav Holst, Bedrich Smetana, Ottorino Respighi, Johannes Brahms, Francois Couperin, Johan Sebastian Bach, Henryk Górecki, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - each work so carefully chosen that the visuals are liberated from the screen to enter our minds. It is that rare opportunity to watch creation, death, life, and the majesty of nature - none of which is understandable - and that is where the comfort source of this film touches us.
The cast is committed and allows the story to enter our heads untainted; Brad Pitt is the father, Jessica Chastain is the mother, young Jack is Hunter McCracken who ages into Sean Penn, Fiona Shaw is the grandmother, and the other boys are played by Laramie Eppler and Tye Sheridan. But the real star of this glowing work of art is Terrence Malick. This film is a masterpiece of cinematic art. It needs to be seen and experienced. Grady Harp, October 11
38 of 45 found the following review helpful:
Starting to break communicable boundariesOct 18, 2011
By Bill Brasky
Tree of Life needs to be approached with an open mind, for if you are approaching this strictly because Brad Pitt is starring, or because Malick is directing, or because you heard the movie won an award then your experience watching the film will preclude any satisfaction. The story arch progresses and digresses unlike any other big-budget movie I have ever seen (including Malick's other films) and can easily frustrate the viewer, evidenced by the stories of people walking out of theaters and by the mass of 1-star reviews. But if you are able to limit, or even eliminate, your references to the traditional motion picture's story arc, narrative, and scope then the movie will be much more powerful and mean a lot more. The film represents Malick's philosophy about reality and life (which has been the backbone through most all his films, but in Tree of Life most blatantly) and about how a man dealt with his own human conditioning (graceful Mother and Darwinian Father) amid this big picture.
This film starts to break the barrier of language and spectacle and starts to communicate to the viewer at a deeper level, somewhat like poetry. I understand this sounds extremely pretentious, but if taken seriously and just experienced with an open mind, the film entertains and informs us at a level beyond the limits of the medium.
39 of 47 found the following review helpful:
It's like my psyche on filmOct 16, 2011
By J. Hogate
Really strange and interesting film. A philosopher might have an easier time giving an accurate description of what this film conveys, but I'll give it a shot. It starts out with a quote of verses from the Bible, Job 38:4,7 - "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?... When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" And the mother saying in a voiceover the nuns taught there are two ways through life - one of nature and one of grace. The older brother Jack whispers, "Brother. Mother. It was they who brought me to your door." Presumably meaning the guidance of Jack's mother and younger brother R.L. whose influences brought older, conflicted Jack to the point of grace and into the hereafter after struggling against his father's and life's brutal way of nature which is portrayed through the events throughout majority of the film. I have to disagree with those who say there isn't anything supporting God or creation here. Seems to me the director would have cut the first 5 minutes of the film if he wanted some objective viewpoint to be left to the viewer to decide. Of course the dinosaurs give a view of a long creation process but there are no monkey people discovering fire as there were in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also the middle brother R.L. dying appears to be at odds with the mother saying "no one who lives by grace comes to a bad end" creating some paradox, but since we don't know really who died by watching the film alone (end credits give a clue as to who died - had to be middle brother R.L. at 19 as Sean Penn is credited with the role of Jack as an adult) or how (mother gets a hand-delivered letter, presumably R.L. died in a war) this can't be discussed without more details, so it's possible the middle brother R.L. may not have chosen the way of grace as an adult even though he seems less prone to rebellion and violent ways of his older brother in the beginning as children. The young boy who drowns also causes young Jack to question God and whether the boy was bad. The sermon at the family's church on Job's life actually provides some answers from God's perspective. The young R.L. reminded me of one of the director's characters from The Thin Red Line (Jim Caviezel's character I think, the soldier who refused to kill anyone) who is in the middle of a violent world and is taking the way of peace and grace while stuck between a violent father and brother.
Anyways, confusing and contentious points aside, I really related to this film in that I grew up next door to a family similar to this one with the meals at the table and the strict military father and rebellious older child - I had a more free-wheeling upbringing but this family still rang very true. And could also feel the relationships I've had as a kid being tortured but protected by an older cousin and could feel what my dad went through as a child with his father in some ways like there were ancestral memories being pulled from my mind and put on screen even though I'd never experienced them directly. Could also relate as an adult to Pitt's father character in his struggles with his job and undeveloped talent and frustration. Even if you can't figure out what the film is trying to say entirely you will definitely have a visceral experience and come away with something deep.
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