The Tree of Life (2011)

THE TREE OF LIFE  (2011)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Terrence Malick
    Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn,
    Hunter McCracken, Fiona Shaw, Irene Bedard
Terrence Malick takes on life, death, God, families, the origin of the universe, evolution, the hereafter and everything in between, all playing out from (and back into) the story of a middle-class family in 1950s Texas. Slow going at times, but a head trip, for sure. The only way to understand it all would be to crawl inside Terrence Malick's skull, and the only one who can do that is Terrence Malick. It's like "The Fountain" meets "Contact" meets "2001". They're all kind of barking up the same tree.