While I'm not an experienced renaissance man of film like DeNiro or anywhere near the critic Ebert is, but, forgive me, I didn't see a single shred of a point behind The Tree of Life. Don't get me wrong, I'm an open-minded guy and savvy enough to see the artistic point of cinema. Knowing the metaphor the title alludes to, I can tip my hat to a creative filmmaker tackling something that deep and ambitious, but that's it. I can pay attention to just about any slow or extreme movie you put in front of me, but I couldn't stop looking at my watch to wonder when the brain-draining torture was going to end.
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