Highly recommended movie: "The Tree of Life" (new on DVD)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/

I'm watching it on a 21" computer monitor with a standard DVD from Netflix. But
I can imagine how much more impact it would have on the big screen
with great sound. (It's the only DVD I recall ever seeing with a
recommendation before the feature starts to crank the sound way up if you want to appreciate
better sound quality.) I can easily imagine it winning Best Sound Design at the next Oscars.

Yes, it is long, lyrical, but also one of the most exquisitely beautiful
films I've ever seen in my life, and among the most spiritual in a Judeo-Christian way. (It
starts off with a title slide that's a Bible verse. What was the last
Hollywood film you saw which did *that*?)

It's like watching...light as
poetry (with large dashes of the best of BBC's "Planet Earth" series
(plus space) you could imagine).

Maybe it's the domestic details from the '50s, too, which grab me, since Jo and I grew up roughly the same years as the children in the movie. ;-)

What I added on Facebook when a friend commented that Netflix users only gave it a 3 overall (out of 5):

I think it's either the sort of film you'll love or hate. I'd rate it higher than 3, probably 4 or 5. If you have no "poet" in you, you'll rate it lower (esp. if you have to have car chases and shootouts in every film you watch ;-)

I just finished watching it, BTW, watched the credits (carefully) to the very end. (One, quite curiously, was something like "Center for Visual Music."(!) There are a *lot* of songs in this movie. For what it's worth, I watched it with the closed-captioning on. (Often the words are just whispered. So without caption, yeah, I'd agree: crank up the volume as they warn you at the start.)

Just watched "The Adjustment Bureau" on DVD. Recommended. I'd give it 4/5. :-)

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http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Adjustment_Bureau/70130140?trkid=496624#

I just bummed that the Netflix DVD had only a teaser for the extras. (You have to buy the disk to see them. :-(

It would be very interesting to have a theological discussion in a group after watching this.