The Tree of Life.

Diesen Film schaue ich gleich. Ich bin gespannt. Und nachher steht hier dann, wie er war. Die Bilder sind schon mal WOAH! Hier das Review

WTF?

4 Kommentare

Wenn der Film genauso schnell geschnitten ist wie der Trailer, könnte er anstrengend sein. Bin gespannt.

Lia am 16.06.11 um 19:23.
wie jetzt genau — zu empfehlen? Dauervideoclip mit Schwindelschnitten?

christian am 17.06.11 um 12:13.
@christian: Dauervideoclip mit in die Bilder verliebtem Regisseur, der den Zuschauern bei der Interpretation der – nur lose vorhandenen – Story so viel Freiraum lässt, dass sie vor lauter Symbolik und Bildgewalt ersaufen. Trotzdem für einen Großteil der wunderbaren Bilder sehenswert, so lange du keine ausgewachsene Story erwartest. Popcorn-Kino ist es auf keinen Fall ;-)

Markus am 17.06.11 um 13:01.
Guter Review. Auf den Punkt. Und schnell ist an dem Film wirklich so gar nichts.…

Ich hab’s auf Flixster nen Ticken länger gemacht, lässt sich nur von dort etwas umständlich teilen, also Copy & Paste:

„I’m torn. Torn between screaming „WTF?” at the screen in frustration and marvelling at probably the most gorgeous cinematography and most overwhelming imagery I’ve ever seen in a cinema. Malick tells a powerful, moving story, one that really profits from his complete disregard for classic narrative and derives its incredible strength from the pure, undiluted emotion that radiates from the movie’s great moments. These are all scenes that focus on the family (Jessica Chastain and the kids are superb, Brad Pitt is just his usual one-facial-expression-acting self): Great moments of intimacy, threat, emotion, love, hate. Perfection.

And then Malick loses himself in sheer endless philosophical ponderings on life itself. And that is where the movie lacks — this is too much, too many topics pressed into one film, too far away from the simple perfection of the family scenes (the close-ups of the baby on the shoulder, the jealousy of the first-born after his brother is born — all great stuff, life’s most defining moments pressed into a few minutes of cinema like never seen before). 20 minute excursions into the history of the world itself, only accompanied by overly dramatic religious music and extremely un-subtle prayers and whispers — I do get what Malick is trying to do here, but it does not work. After a while I decided that he probably just couldn’t bring himself to discard any of his beautiful material and decided to stick EVERYTHING into the film.

My suggestion for consumption: Watch on DVD and forward the volcanoes, dinosaurs and other stuff that shouldn’t be in the movie anyway. Just watch the family scenes and marvel at their flawlessness.

I can’t really rate a film that I wanted to embrace physically at some points and switch off at others. So 3 1/2 stars is just my safe middle ground.”

http://www.flixster.com/movie/the-tree-of-life2010

Ina am 17.06.11 um 13:06.