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Reviews
Ashes and Snow (2005)
Pseudo-artistic animal abuse
Yes, the images are beautiful but Yes, these beautiful images are symbolic of humans trying to control nature for their own purpose.
Exotic animals are beautiful when they are wild and in their natural habitats and without humans swirling around. When you train elephants in a circus to obey you, it becomes disgraceful and disgusting. How many takes were necessary to obtain the "picture perfect" images of a dancer and a bird flying above? How many takes does it take to have 5 elephants moving together at the same time? A lot!
Most animals in that "movie"/artistic performance have been domesticated even if their nature is to be wild and sometimes ferocious. We're not talking about cats and dogs here but about animals usually living in the wild.
Controlling animals for the pleasure of humans had always disgusted me.
The Tree of Life (2011)
When you try too much, you fail at it.
When you combine too much different colors of paint together, as much as the individual color can be beautiful, you'll end up with a crappy brown disgusting paint.
If a movie wants to talk about the lost of innocence, fine...but you don't have to mix in a "National Geographic" documentary about the creation of the Earth in it.
This attempt of showing the beauty of the World (both physical and spiritual) with religion is a complete failure.
When a movie tries too hard to be good and unique, it fails at it, miserably.
When I see that this is associated with 46 wins & 24 nominations, it pains me to see that the cinematographic world has become so corrupted.