eyeamatt:

“There are not enough superlatives in my vocabulary to express how much I love this film. It is not something you watch, it is something you live through. Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life’s experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. What Malick does in “The Tree of Life” is create the span of lives. Of birth, childhood, the flush of triumph, the anger of belittlement, the poison of resentment, the warmth of forgiving. And he shows that he feels what I feel, that it was all most real when we were first setting out, and that it will never be real in that way again. It has left me an emotionally open wound, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. It is not easy, it is not always nice, but it is, however, always magnificent.”