The Tree Of Life Essay

The Tree of Life is a film about a family who lives in a small town in Texas, that takes place in the 1950s. There are three brothers in the film. The main focus is about the eldest brother growing up and following his life. I think the film is Jack reflecting on his life as an adult and figuring out some why his brother had died. The film discusses the relationships between Jack, his father, and mother. Jack has a great relationship with his mother, but not his father. In the film, Jack’s mother is considered the grace in nature vs grace and the father is nature in the grace vs nature. When Jack is an adult, he struggles with his past and tries to understand what his childhood was, also while struggling with other issues in the present. The …show more content…
When watching and listening to the music in the film it reminded me when I would go to church and would sing songs in church. It seems like the director who is Terrence Malick choose a lot of religious music in the film. I think that God is in the music, but it never actually in the film Tree of Life. When listening to the music in the film all I could think about when I go to church and how peaceful the music is when you go to church. The title of the film which, is The Tree is Life plays a religious faith role because in the book of Genesis 2:9, The Tree of Life is first described as being planted with the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The title of the film comes directly from the Bible. I think this movie does have a religious meaning because when I was doing research on the film itself, it said the Terrance Malick is a religious man himself, so him directing and writing this film he may have wanted to have some religious meaning in it and his religious background may have influenced him to write about