Hollywood has produced an incredibly new style and medium of producing movies with the creation of original and quality entertainment via The Tree of Life. This movie is created in a style that could be said to nearly mimic a silent movie, with both dialogue and active scenes being almost unimportant in this movie.
The movie is more or less an open ending story of a middle class family in the fifties (starring actor Brad Pitt and actress Jessica Chastain) and the challenges they face along the road of life. It jumps occasionally to the life of the eldest boy once he has grown up and moved on to his career and how these circumstances and life experiences affected him personally. It has been compared to a modern day and realistic version of Homer's Odyssey, especially pertaining to highly emphasized wrestling of the two spirits of nature and grace throughout the movie, both in the boy's life and all around them. It is one of the first movies created past the year 2000 that features so strongly scenes of nature and classical music, with scenes of this kind lasting as long as 10 minutes in the movie with no apparent subjective point. The aim of these scenes it has been said are to draw emphasis to role played by grace and nature in the world and universe as a whole.
Overall the movie has gotten mixed reviews. On the one hand there is a more cynical crowd viewing it as a movie without a solid or fixed plot line, with too many questions left unasked or unanswered, and on the other hand, those of the artistic community focusing on the artistic angle of the movie and revealing how not showing the answers to all the questions raised has made the movie's point even stronger. What about you? What does it mean to you?