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# The Tree of Life
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2011/08/12/the-tree-of-life/
- Published: 2011-08-12T11:49:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-29T19:23:03.000Z
- Description: I'd been looking forward to seeing "The Tree of Life", but it's one of the most bombastic and boring movies I've seen in a long time. I still love the trailer though.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Film

After seeing the trailer some time last year I had been looking forward to watching "The Tree of Life". When it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival I was even more eager to see it. Now that I have I am puzzled why it has been lauded with so much praise. It is by far one of the most boring and bombastic movies I have seen in recent years. At some point I got really annoyed by the whispering voice over. The thing is some of the images (and of course the accompanying music) are quite beautiful and there is a good movie in there somewhere. Perhaps if someone were to do a remix. 

The reason that I'm so disappointed is that I recognized myself in the character played by Sean Penn. What's more, many of the locations in the film I have either visited or would love to visit. So, there is something of "me" in the film. 

I still like the trailer though, but that is in part because I like the music, excerpts from Smetana's *The Moldau* and Patrick Cassidy's *Funeral March*.