Academy Awards, USA 2012
| Nominated Oscar | Best Achievement in Directing Terrence Malick |
| Best Achievement in Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki | |
| Best Motion Picture of the Year Sarah Green Bill Pohlad Dede Gardner Grant Hill |
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Directed by Terrence Malick
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Fox)
A young teenage boy and his brother grow up in a small, typical Texas town in the 1950s. While their mother is loving and nurturing, their father is stern and authoritarian. The boy begins to rebel against his father after he witnesses tragedies befall his friends. This is all told as a flashback by the older brother in the present day. Further complicating things are long, abstract digressions into the origins of the universe, including a head-scratching scene with CGI dinosaurs. I think if Malick could have stayed focused on the story of the boys and their family it would have been a better film, as it stands, it is a somewhat pretentious, if beautiful, mess.
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