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Film: Tree of Life

Question: If this movie was made by anyone but Malick, would anyone see it? The answer is self evidently no. What does this suggest? At the very least - there are probably a few other folks out there capable of making this kind of movie - and - those movies will never be seen. Is this a tragedy for human kind? I would say no. Now...what does that say about Tree of Life?

To make the opposite point, in 1973, I doubt if there was another human on the planet who could make Badlands. In fact, I'm not convinced there is another human from 1970-today who could make Badlands.