The Tree of Life (2011) - Quotes

Quotes about The Tree of Life: [[Roger Ebert; http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110602/REVIEWS/110609998 review of ''The Tree of Life'' (2 June 2011)] * ], in his

Quotes about The Tree of Life: [[w:Terrence Malick|Terrence Malick; [ambition; [humility; [all; [existence; [lives; [boldness; [Stanley Kubrick|Kubrick's; [2001: A Space Odyssey; [human; [feeling; [know; [connected; [personal; [experience; [time; [place; [gift; [discipline; [forgiveness; [play; [meaning; [spirituality; [birth; [universe; [evolution; [present; [moment; [Big Bang; [words; [beginning; [nature; [grace; [Visions|vision; [understood; [time] ]'s The Tree of Life is a film of vast ] and deep ], attempting no less than to encompass ] of ] and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal ]. The only other film I've seen with this ] of vision is ] ], and it lacked Malick's fierce evocation of ] ]. … I don't ] when a film has ] more immediately with my own ] ]. In uncanny ways, the central events of The Tree of Life reflect a ] and ] I lived in, and the boys in it are me. If I set out to make an autobiographical film, and if I had Malick's ], it would look so much like this. … There is a father who maintains ] and a mother who exudes ], and long summer days of ] and idleness and urgent unsaid questions about the ] of things. … The film's portrait of everyday life, inspired by Malick's memories of his hometown of Waco, Texas, is bounded by two immensities, one of space and time, and the other of ]. The Tree of Life has awe-inspiring visuals suggesting the ] and expansion of the ], the appearance of life on a microscopic level and the ] of species. This process leads to the ] ], and to all of us. We were created in the ] and over untold millions of years, molecules formed themselves into, well, you and me. And what comes after? In whispered ] near the ], "]" and "]" are heard. … The film's coda provides a ] of an afterlife, a desolate landscape on which quiet people solemnly recognize and greet one another, and all is ] in the fullness of ].

Mrs. Obrien: [[die] I just want to ]... to be with him.

Preacher: [[God; [hands] He's in ]'s ] now.

Mrs. Obrien: [[time] He was in God's hands the whole ]. Wasn't he?

Mr. Obrien: If you're looking for something to happen, that was it. That was life. You lived it.

Mr. Obrien: * To mourners, after the funeral for his son.

Mr. Obrien: Okay, go on now. We're all right. We're all right.

Mrs. Obrien: * After the death of her son

Mrs. Obrien: [[hope; [God] My ]. My ]. What did you gain?

Mrs. Obrien: [[taught; [life; [Nature; [Grace; [reasons; [world; [love; [all; [end] The nuns ] us there are two ways through ] … the way of ]… and the way of ]. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds ] to be unhappy... when all the ] is shining around it... when ] is smiling through ] things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace... ever comes to a bad ]. I will be true to you. Whatever comes.

Voice: How did you come to me, in what shape, what disguise?

Voice: [[door] Brother. Mother. It was they who led me to your ].

Opening placard: [[earth; [morning; [stars; [sang; [w:Sons of God|sons of; [God; [joy] Where were you when I laid the ]’s foundation ... while the ] ] ] together and all the ] ] shouted for ]?