With the summer movie season now here, you will be seeing previews for a lot of big-budget blockbusters. But you will also be seeing previews and reading reviews for the movies that appeal to the “other” crowd of moviegoers, the crowd for whom the November/December movie season of “Academy Awards contenders” is the best movie time of the year. And if you have been keeping a close eye on the movie buzz lately, you have probably come across a lot of material on Tree of Life. This new Terrance Malick film that stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, and that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, if you have heard of this movie and are interested in seeing it, here are a few things you should know about the movie first!
First of all, you need to know that this movie will still be talked about twenty and thirty years from now. However, at this moment, there is no way to tell whether this movie will be viewed in the future as a groundbreaking game-changer, or as a thoroughly catastrophic experiment in moviemaking!
You should be aware of the fact that the stars like Sean Penn does not get much screen time in the movie, and Brad Pitt while giving a tremendous acting performance has hardly any lines in the whole movie. So if you are attracted to this movie because of the names it boasts, you might be disappointed.
You should go to this movie expecting an original, unusual, and sometimes frustrating cinematic experience; as long as you go into the movie knowing that it is a thoroughly unconventional adventure in film-making, you will be far less likely to leave the movie frustrated as many others already have and will be able to appreciate the movie for what it is. After all, the critics all love it and most audiences hate it. Otherwise, the movie is worth seeing so that you can see what side you are on, and so that you can say twenty or thirty years from now that you saw the movie when it first came out.
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