Now, after seeing "The Tree of Life" a second time, it's getting to be more profound that I thought it was after seeing it the first time in cinema.
Malick is giving us "the big picture" and the small picture all at once. He's putting a small life into the center of his movie and shows how great and full of wonders and spiritual experience it can be. He shows, how meaningful and meaningless such a life is, all at once.Everything what we do is meaningless in context to the space of time, but for us it is essential, it is our live. Malick draws this big picture how only Kubrick does it in movies… but in contrary to him, he has no book to follow. He develops his own story through improvisation with his great actors. The movie tells us about how great and similarly small are lives are.We don't even know, if Sean Penns character is the son, Pitts character has lost or if he has become an angel after dying all at once in the beginning of the film and is connected to our world as a sort of angel.However, this film gives us more quests than answers, that's a good reason for looking at it twice.

