Anybody else watched "Tree of Life"? I'd heard a lot of buzz about it being fabulous - and about it being incomprehensible. My take? Yes.
I just watched it on DVD & I freely admit to fast-forwarding through parts of the movie that seemed more like a PBS "Nature" science-documentary. I have no idea what I was supposed to get from that part. I clearly didn't get whatever it was - just glad I had a remote instead of sitting through it in a theater.
However - the story (when it resumed) is of a family in Texas - Mom & Dad (Brad Pitt - looking most un-Pitt-like) and their three sons in the 60s. The difference between living life by "nature" or by "grace." Dad was nature; Mom was grace. The older son (played as a grown up by a completely gorgeous Sean Penn) and his growing up/father-issues. The brothers being boys. Also, God/faith/reason. The loss of a child.
The end - on a beach? or something? heaven? past & present? whatever it was - it made me cry by eyeballs out. And cry and cry and cry. Chuck came in to ask if I was okay. I think I snuffled that I was alright.
After the credits started to roll up, I went back and watched the first 15 minutes of the movie over again. Seeing details I'd missed before.
Anyway - I'm not sure exactly what the movie was trying to say. Or what it said. But it spoke to me. And I'd sure like to talk to somebody else who's seen it. Discuss. maybe cry a little more.
