Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

bpenelope I thought it was great. At first I thought it was going to be very depressing. Kept at it and it really spoke to me. Didn't like the alcoholic part too much, thought was unnecessary. After it was over, it made me go make a list to ask my husband and grown kids questions e.g. favorite color, season, book, and many other questions. Nice thought provoking and redemption story.

kosmasp Some forests seem to have a reputation about them. Though I do wonder how it is, they don't actually do something about those. I mean if you are aware that people go there for a specific (and horrific if I may add) reason, you'd think they would try to put measures in place to stop people from doing something they won't be able to regret.But if that were the case, you wouldn't have this movie now would you? And it's a fine movie overall. I read it got bad reviews and reactions in Cannes, which is a bit surprising. Especially considering this feels like a movie that should be at home in Cannes (no pun intended). The acting is really good and while you mostly have 2 characters (with some flashbacks where more people are being seen), it never is boring. If you like Drama that is of course ...

Lindsay Jones The fact that anyone would boo this movie is despicable. My husband and I have become accustomed to doing the opposite of the critics for this very reason. If this movie is so boring, how did it keep me up until 2 am?! We started the movie very late in the night, but I was hooked and remained hooked the entire time, I couldn't fall asleep!! The last movie to do that to me was Ex Machina and Interstellar. This is a deep movie, perhaps people that attend film festivals are those considered to be still "unconscious". It's just one big circle jerk of wannabees anyways right?

lavatch The bonus track from the DVD of "The Sea of Trees" is entitled "A Story of Beauty and Tragedy." That pair of opposites recalls another seemingly contradictory literary work: the late medieval work of Dante known as "The Divine Comedy." The second part of Dante's poem is the poet's journey up the mountain of purgatory, as he is accompanied by his guide, Virgil. So too, in "The Sea of Trees," the protagonist, Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) has traveled to Japan in order to take his life in the forest of Aokigahara at the northwest base of Mount Fuji; it is there that he experiences his purgatory on earth.Arthur discovers his tour guide through the forest in another lost soul,Takumi Nakamura, as played by Ken Watanabe. Takumi is successful in allowing Arthur to bare his soul in his troubled relationship with his wife Joan (Naomi Watts). A string of flashback scenes paints the complete picture of the flawed marriage and eventual death of Joan. The emotion of guilt has led Arthur to his attempt at suicide. But he discovers redemption, due to the guidance of his friend in the forest.The film may have been successful in its goal of spinning a yarn of beauty and tragedy. The forest scenes are fascinating and well-photographed. The story is moving. And the actors are excellent. But, in the end, the film is never very profound.Dante's journey through purgatory offers an enormous range of human emotions and experiences. But "The Sea of Trees" is self-indulgent and limited in its monochromatic depiction of human guilt.