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Jan. 6th, 2012 01:17 amAbout 60% of film top ten lists by male critics included The Tree of Life, compared to 44% of those by female critics, I have just painstakingly confirmed. I forget why I confirmed, but I confirmed.
Maybe it was unconsciously based on Meek's speech, which describes the dynamic of the parents in Tree startlingly closely. Malick was about pushing past it, but the pusher was male. You could say it had to be personal given the detail level it was shooting for, that those were the resources Malick had, but then there's the stuff at the end where the mother whispers "I give him to you," presumably to Sean Penn's spouse. I was annoyed by a lot of other things too, in that section, but even with stupid parties it's not nice to not be invited, and I'm not sure women were, at least as women. This is kind of glaring when your party is pretty much labeled the story of all life. He achieved a lot of genuine universality with the childhood stuff (hence the 44%), which this aspect won't occlude any more than the sucky ending does unless you let it, but there's a lot of reasons one might be inclined to let it.
Though, er, men were likelier by an even wider margin to select Meek's Cutoff. But that's a Western. All chicks hate those.
Maybe it was unconsciously based on Meek's speech, which describes the dynamic of the parents in Tree startlingly closely. Malick was about pushing past it, but the pusher was male. You could say it had to be personal given the detail level it was shooting for, that those were the resources Malick had, but then there's the stuff at the end where the mother whispers "I give him to you," presumably to Sean Penn's spouse. I was annoyed by a lot of other things too, in that section, but even with stupid parties it's not nice to not be invited, and I'm not sure women were, at least as women. This is kind of glaring when your party is pretty much labeled the story of all life. He achieved a lot of genuine universality with the childhood stuff (hence the 44%), which this aspect won't occlude any more than the sucky ending does unless you let it, but there's a lot of reasons one might be inclined to let it.
Though, er, men were likelier by an even wider margin to select Meek's Cutoff. But that's a Western. All chicks hate those.
