No doubt most of us are familiar with Terrence Malick, the famous film maker. The kind that you either greatly admire or hate. His brand new film 'The tree of life' is being shown in Barcelona cinemas Full HD ACDC of Cornella, starred Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. On the night of the première over the weekend, there's a large bill-board placed by the door, announcing something never heard of (as far as I know), a rather strange and innovative offer, that 'if anyone hates Malick and finds the film boring, please leave the cinema within 30 minutes, and a free entrance ticket to any film of his choice would be given'.
It's a long film of 141 minutes, some feel that even if you do like the film, some might find it trying to sit through a serious drama for near 2 and half hours. Apparently about 10% of audience did leave, but not within 30 minutes during that first night. Not easy and not really fair anyway to judge a film of being very good or bad in the first 30 minutes I feel. It happened in Cannes Film Festival too, winning Golden Palm Award between enthusiastic applause and loud boos. It's the tree of discord.
As we know, nothing, however good or bad, can please everybody. There are also people who cheer and say they love it because others seem to, and the type who dislike it but don't want to admit it, for fear of being thought too shallow or uncultivated to understand anything more than comedies and cartoons.
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