MOVIE REVIEW: The Tree of Life
THE TREE OF LIFE-- 1 STAR Official Website Internet Movie Database I'll warn you right now. This review is going to get a first-person point-of-view rather than a journalist's third person point-of-view, and it's going to get ugly. The Tree of Life can't be reviewed by me without it this time. According to Wikipedia , conceptually, the idea of a "tree of life" symbolizes the religious, scientific, and philosophical notion that all life on Earth is invariably connected. The term could be interpreted as a metaphor for the common origins of evolution, the planet's interconnection of all things, or the livelihood of an ethereal spirit. It appears in Chinese, Indian, Norse, Egyptian, Jewish, and Mesoamerican mythologies. J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis have put their own versions of the "tree of life" in their literature. You can even say movies like Darren Aronosky's The Fountain and even Avatar 's "Home Tree" borrow from the ide...