DETAILS, FICTION AND TREE OF LIFE

Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is a movie of extensive ambition and deep humility, trying no lower than to encompass all of existence and view it from the prism of a few infinitesimal life. the sole other film I’ve seen with this particular boldness of eyesight is Kubrick’s “2001: an area Odyssey,” and it lacked Malick’s fierc