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Huh?? Beau is once again afraid… of COVID 😂. Genuinely the most mixed bag that it could’ve possibly been. Some scenes are intense, others fall short. There are a lot of outdated jokes, but other scenes are comedic gold. It’s a movie that tries to juggle too many things at once that it ends up half baking certain plot points and immediately starting new ones. However, I can’t deny that it was a pretty entertaining ride. It felt like a fever dream, kinda like 2020 did. 0/10 tho no falling bison like in the poster 🗿.

Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Aside from that though, this was pretty fire lol. I love the vibes of the John Wick universe and it’s once again in full display here. The kills are creative and Ana de Armas does a pretty good job. However, I do think the action falls short compared to the other movies; more cuts, less creative camerawork, and also slow motion? Why 😅? Don’t get me wrong, it’s still great, but I just don’t think it reaches the heights of the rest of the franchise. 10/10 can’t wait for the sequel 🔥.

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?… when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”- Job 38: 4, 7 The Tree of Life begins with this simple verse from Job. One of the most polarizing stories from the Bible, the story follows a man trying to reconcile with the suffering that has befallen upon him; having lost most of what was dear to him, for seemingly no reason. He constantly asks for relief from his now miserable life, even wishing for death at times. He never curses God, he simply demands an answer, because an answer will give him closure: hope. Hope that whatever he was put through served a bigger purpose in the end. However, In the midst of his suffering, God remains silent. Absent from the cries of his child, God becomes a mere spectator, a mythical being of sorts. Until the last chapters. This movie serves as a meditation on this. We follow the childhood of a man who never got over his brother’s death. We see all sorts of aspects of his life, both the good and bad: his first steps, learning handiwork from his dad, bedtime stories with his mother. It’s all orchestrated to feel like a sort of giant montage. We see his kid self try to come to terms with the suffering in his life. We see him and his mom pray to God, demanding answers. However, just as in Job, God doesn’t answer, and we may think that it’s because He doesn’t care. We are shown the immensity of the cosmos; the sheer volume of the universe. If there is a God that created it all, why? Why would he care about any of this? A tiny speck in space and time. Why should we demand He lower Himself for such minuscule inquiries?  However, the answer, at least to me, isn’t some grand reveal that lies in the heart of the stars. It’s found here, on this earth; this tiny speck. The movie explains the different paths a man can take, of “nature vs grace” To go against your sinful nature is to choose the path of grace. While we see the movie’s characters choose the path of nature, we also see them choose grace. We see it in the form of apologies, the desire to do good and to ditch the evil. That to me is the key, because in the grandiosity of the known universe, no where else in its hidden corners will we find something with the ability to choose among these paths. God made us this way, with intentionality, and that means that He must care about us. He hears our suffering, our cries. He wouldn’t waste such a precious gift on something that wouldn’t matter. We matter. Our suffering matters. We are God’s most beautiful creation, even more beautiful than the stars.  Was this what Terrence Malick wanted to tell us? I don’t know 😂. But it’s what I got out of it, and that’s good enough for me.

At least there weren’t bugs in this one 😭. Nothing happens in the first hour and it doesn’t help that the characters are so half baked and generic. There’s literally no point in adding the family. Once the movie ACTUALLY starts like 1 hour in, it’s got some decent stuff here and there, but it’s for the most part lackluster and a look to the past to when these movies were actually worth watching. Also I think that “D-Rex” is the stupidest name you could give to a mutant dinosaur. Literally just stop at this point 🫠.