The Tree of Life (film)

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American experimental drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. The film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middleaged mans childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and the inception of life on Earth.

The film begins with a quotation from the Book of Job Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth?... When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?A mysterious, wavering light, resembling a flame, flickers in the darkness. Mrs. OBrien recalls a lesson taught to her that people must choose to follow either the path of grace or the path of nature. In the 1960s, she receives a telegram informing her of the death of her son, R.L., aged nineteen. Mr. OBrien is notified by telephone while at an airport. The family is thrown into turmoil. ........

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