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The Tree of Life is a truly worshipful film
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The Tree of Life is a truly worshipful film

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Brett Alan Dewing
Aug 15, 2011
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In the world of Terrence Malick’s oeuvre, people are forever separate and separated.  Curtains, screen doors, grasses, water, and even air keeps man from man in a space between disclosure and self-revelation.  His characters are always pushing at the veil between them and inching deceptively closer to one another.

In The Tree of Life, the same images rul…

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