Which non-indian film u saw recently has made u post here???

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Tree of Life - As a massive Malick fan, I found it slightly disappointing without being surprised all along. Heidegger's Being & Beings. Angst & Finitude. Hermeneutic circle et all is all good (Forget one's own reservations about the diff. schools of thoughts, It's important to identify filmmaker's & the success with which it's realized ) but never comes together as one full piece as it winds up towards the end. Malick was always going to immanentize the eschaton after all the suggestivity in his previous films. Turning what Heidegger feared most about this medium on its own solipsistic head. For the most part, he succeeds. It DOES work as a tone poem that one'd expect from Malick, with its own pattern of aural-visual where the spoken word is, in various connotations, essentially the same Heideggerian question. Like all his films, there's a main narrative which meanders around that one mortal question as it touches amoral, oedipal, fraternal, filial & familial obligations - in short the very existence.

Malick achieves most of what he set out to do. And the way his career was treading all along, he was bound to make this. This works as an audacious cinematic ride since 'Enter the void' - For which reason, it ought to be seen in widest screen possible. Malick's fondness of v-o's isn't abusive. The images flow but not with cinematic poesis of a Tarkovsky, who seamlessly sculpts time & space. The darkness & bright light that's often used to counterpoint null void & emanating sentient source seem to stand for mortality of medium itself. WCM had never been used with as much efficacy in American cinema since Kubrick.

Subsequent views could change my mind, but I feel the urge to revisit his other (better) films than to ride on this again.

Btw If you ever thought Malick finds contemporary setting utterly vacuous & empty to stay off it, Sean Penn portion reaffirms the assumption.