Tree of Life

   So, I feel weird putting this up so late, but I typed it up at the beginning of the week and hadn't gotten around to finishing it and everything.
     Although Leeper said that this was like watching a 2 and a half hour painting, I still think it had a plot. It started with losing the son, then had creation, then had the story of the family that lost the son, then ended with acceptance of losing the son. Isn't that a plot? Half of the movie is flashbacks, but it's still a plot.

    I loved the creation part, especially near the beginning when it was showing all the stars and lava and clouds, and there were the thundering, rumbling sounds. Like some people were pointing out, it made you realize how big and awesome are the things God has created. How powerful and, frankly, scary, some of those creations can be. It makes you wonder what the Creator is like, if he chooses to create things like that. And this is the same creator who invented bunny rabbits.
    Also, how puny we are, and what a small part of this creation we are, physically. Did you notice that the creation scenes didn't even bother to show humans? We were one of the last things God created. He spent 5 days creating all that huge, awesome stuff, and then he created us. And put us on this one planet. In one garden. And that's where we fit; we didn't even fill up one garden.And the rest of his creation fills up the rest of space.
     Anyways, it definitely made me think of Job, and what God told him.
       One other thing that hit me in the movie is really just an odd thing particular to me. Whenever I think of how families have more and more kids, I generally think, "Well, that's great, but it must get pretty routine. Once you've had one, then each one after that is just another one." Like, I know each kid is different, and parents say they love them just the same, but that's just it. They say they love all their kids equally. Well, to me that means that you can't specially love each one; you just love them ALL equally. I've wondered how that works, and it just hit me in the movie. When you have the first kid, you love him tons. Then when you have the second, it's like having the first all over again. The only difference is that this kid is different that the other, and that makes it all the better, because now you don't get to love and know just one kid, you get to know and love two separate, individual kids. Of course, this may make no sense to you, and it's all just a guess on my part, but at least I have a theory now. I've also been wondering lately how God can love his children equally but individually, and this theory helps there, too. I mean, think about it. God has had children for thousands of years, millions of children. Don't you think by the time he adopted you, the 308,596,322nd child, into his family, things would've gotten pretty routine? Maybe you're slightly different than every other one of his children, but still, you're just another one. But maybe each of us is like the first kid in God's eyes, the first and only kid he's ever had, and that's how he loves each of us. That's why he's not content with the 99 sheep, he has to have that one more lost sheep.