The Tree of Life

Movie: The Tree of Life

Genre: strange

Synopsis: From IMDB: “The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s.”.  The father is played by Brad Pitt.  He has three sons.  The story centers around the complicated relationship between the father and his son Jack (the adult Jack is played by Sean Penn).

My two cents: I walked out of the movie after 55 minutes. The 30+ minutes of the movie was like watching a slideshow put together by a drunk.  You would see a clip of a volcano erupting followed by a school of hammerhead sharks followed by pictures of deep space nebulae followed by a clip of a dinosaur crossing a creek followed by a clip showing blood flowing through a blood vessel followed by a fetus still inits mother’s womb, . . . Every couple of minutes a mysterious voice would say a sentence or two -  and then back to “impressionistic” images.  When they finally started showing actual actors, it was difficult to keep track of the timeline.  When they showed Jack an adult, I would not have known who it was supposed to be if I had not already known Sean Penn was the adult Jack.  I think I was so turned off by the first 30-40 minutes that when it started actually looking like a movie, I could not get past my irritation.  I have read such glowing reviews that I will probably give it a 2^nd try when it comes to HBO, but as of right now, it gets two giant thumbs down from me.

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