{"id":1895,"date":"2010-12-21T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:05:59","slug":"the-tree-of-life-in-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/12\/21\/the-tree-of-life-in-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"The tree of life, in pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you haven’t seen the trailer<\/a> for Terence Malick’s forthcoming film The Tree of Life<\/em>, you’re just not a real cineaste, are you?<\/p>\n

What’s better than burrowing analytically into the Heideggerian ecophilosophical themes of Malick’s films (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World<\/em> — before making any of them he was<\/em> a Heideggerian philosopher)? Analyzing the trailers<\/em>, of course, which is what Eric Kohn does in a shot-by-shot breakdown<\/a> of its full 96-cuts-in-two-minutes length. Water, fire, nature, innocence, grace (sounds like a Tarkovsky film so far, or something Lars von Trier is about to twist inside out<\/a>), baseball, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn (so much for Tarkovsky)…<\/p>\n

H\/t to Drifting’<\/a>s David Lowery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t seen the trailer for Terence Malick’s forthcoming film The Tree of Life, you’re just not a real cineaste, are you? What’s better than burrowing analytically into the Heideggerian ecophilosophical themes of Malick’s films (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World — before making any of them he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688745],"tags":[352,22616],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema_zone","tag-film","tag-malick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-uz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4827,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/06\/27\/malicks-tangled-bank\/","url_meta":{"origin":1895,"position":0},"title":"Malick’s tangled bank","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 It will take some time before I can say anything very intelligible about Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. 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