The film Tree of Life was difficult to follow and fully understand even after preparing myself with the trailer. To me the overall concept of the movie was about a boy out of about 3 siblings who had difficulty respecting authority in the house; His father was trying to raise his boys through a hard attitude only a man can truly understand. Jack seemed to have taken this hard attitude more difficult than his other brothers, expressing the attitude of a bratty child wanting to get away with whatever mischief he had wanted to.
I didn't understand why the different shots of the nature were so constantly shown as if nature was to have some kind of relation to the family. I didn't understand the random creative shots of different patterns of lights , as well as the shot of a wounded dinosaur licking itself. What was Jack's reasoning for him placing his mother's dress into a stream? did he have this weird obcenity of this dresse or was he simply looking for attention. This film raised lots of questions but in the end Jack just came off as the guy wanting a loving relationship from his father most of all. The reason I make that connection is because it was his father I believe that set this false image of what a man is supposed to be like in life. This hard being with little emotion, treats his family and wife with disrespect on many occasions.
* This film raised lots of questions but in the end Jack just came off as the guy wanting a loving relationship from his father most of all.
ReplyDelete--it seems like this reading can start to make sense of a lot of the questions--the role of nature, even the dinosaur that shows some mercy to the wounded one.