Tree of Life

[elski]

I was wondering were those scenes tightly scripted or was there an element of improv? they did feel like a string of memories of small details and amazing if he wrote everything beforehand or filmed a lot more that was edited out. Either way it's a talent to have captured it that way.

[tarantinoed]

What about the toddler making his first steps with Brad Pitt - totally genuine it looked to me? Also when the little boy Jack met the baby - again amazing. No wonder the film was in the making for 10 years! Not sure whether it's a rumour but there may be a 6 hour version coming (this will horrify many, I'm sure, who found the 2hrs+ version too much to take!).

[raj101]

yes, rather than trying to mimic a 1950s camcorder effect or using black and white, this style is by far the most effective way to visualise childhood memories, i reckon.

its one reason i dont want to see it again, the snapshots in the movie have already become 'memory bites' in my mind rather than one long sequence of a movie, and now another viewing would water down the presentation of its 'memories' and turn them into a film. That would be something lesser than what this art work is.


lol i would watch the 6 hour version though.

[elski]

a 6 hour versionas long as you had an espresso machine on hand! my problem was that the only screening time was once a day at 8:50pm and after trailers 9:15pm on a friday so some of the dinosaur and cosmos stuff had me drifting off to sleep. Once it got going after the dinos I managed to wake up a bit and get into it.

[newdot]

Finally got to see this (3 quid on amazon for dvd).

wow. Surely the film that cinema was invented for. Astonishing in every conceivable way. Sails serenely into my top 5 films of all time.

Whats this about a 6 hr version? Was that ever released onto dvd ?

ps, would have loved to have seen this on a big screen.

[andrews]

I recorded this recently, and yesterday sat down to watch it. After 25 minutes, I still hadn't a clue what was going on, and abandoned it. Should I attempt to watch the rest or start over?

[newdot]

I guess you have to be in the right mood :)

rule of thumb... if you loved "2001, a space odessey", then Tree of Life might be for you.

ps, lent the dvd to my mum & she made it through about 15 minutes before giving up.

[The Sparrow]

I recorded this recently, and yesterday sat down to watch it. After 25 minutes, I still hadn't a clue what was going on, and abandoned it. Should I attempt to watch the rest or start over?

Save your time for something much better,like watching paint dry. You will be far more satisfied.

[akh43]

For anyone who missed this at the cinema and wants to watch this is part of a Brad Pitt season on Film 4 and is showing on Thursday night at 10.45pm.

[McG]

I'm having a chuckle just now . . .I thought this was the thread for Book of Life and started reading some comments before I was going to write my own . . .of course, the comments made no sense to what I'd just watched this morning at Book of Life!