The Tree of Life

We keep coming full circle here.

It's the 2011 film The Tree of Life.

Oh my gosh.

This will be tough.

I redeem myself with Malick.

All right, well, as I said yesterday, I'm not a fan of Malick, so that...

I think I've seen The Tree of Life maybe two or three times, and every single time I'm like, this is just too weird.

Have you watched The New World? This one with Colin Farrell, right?

We'll see how this one goes.

And then we'll go into our double feature, and we're gonna be talking about movies in conversation with Social Reckoning, and we'll finish with a good, true, and beautiful review of The Tree of Life, which is my pick, one of my Letterboxd top four.

It's a, a fantastic film, really excited to dive into The Tree of Life.

But first, now showing The Social Reckoning.

[tense music] Do you have an interest in social media? Not even a little bit.

Those were our double feature picks.

We had Dark Waters, His Girl Friday, and The Post.

If you have any thoughts of your double feature or anything, uh, thoughts of the social reckoning, you could email us at goodtrucinema@gmail.com. That's goodtrucinema@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you and to figure out, a, what are you watching, um, and what do you think about the movies that we are reviewing here at The Good, the True, and the Cinema? We're gonna be transitioning now to the Good, True, and Beautiful review of The Tree of Life.

The fact that it's on your top 10 list, that's even more icing on the cake to convince me to watch it.

Yeah, it's just one of those films like Mirror that I talked about from him previously and The Tree of Life where it just has a spiritual quality to it that it's hard to describe unless you've gone through it.

So you just kind of have to have the experience for yourself and then see what you think.

Very good.

And, um, and he goes right through to the modern era of, uh, you know, first the kind of the revolution of motion control filmmaking, which is where we started using computers to control the movements of the cameras as opposed to the sort of mechanical clockwork they were using on 2001.

And, um, and then further on into the digital era, working with people like Terrence Malick on, uh, a film like, uh, The Tree of Life, uh, creating the extraordinary sort of birth of the universe sequence for that film.

So he spans this whole era.

It's a little bit like getting to talk to, uh, Paul McCartney, you know, who's there at the kind of [laughs] the origins of rock 'n' roll, and is still making music today.

What a great song that was.

So I let you get me on this instead of staring down the barrel of the tree of life.

I think I'm glad I picked this instead of The Tree of Life.

I think I'm glad you picked it.

Yeah, I did not want to watch The Tree of Life this weekend.

I was expecting this to be bad, though, and something of a slog, kind of like...

Well, yeah, like a lot of 90s shit, 90s blockbuster movies, just, you know, they don't really warrant existing.

Oh yeah, Jesse Plemons.

Um, Lubezki does "Tree of Life," "The Revenant." He's won some Oscars, so the movie just looks really cool too.

Um, but it's a hard movie to talk about without spoiling it, but it just kind of takes you on a ride.

There's some more here for you.

He's great in Fight Club.

He's great in Bastards, which we just reviewed.

Tree of Life.

Tree of Life.