The Sea Of Trees (2016) - Consider It A Fairy Tale!

★★★☆☆

‘The Sea Of Trees’ is not so worthless and terrible like those critics suggest in fact, especially if you consider it a fairy tale, rather than some sort of real-life melancholy, that essentially hints at the need of faith in dealing with grief, guilt, remorse, self-condemnation, whatever you call it that gets you hell as you think you’re the reason for losing someone or something you love and adore!

Negative reviews are however, right about the score that appears to be odd and weird, totally unfit for the poignant imagery. And the story paces a bit slow with some of the flashbacks that seem rather redundant and pointless. Naomi Watts is attractive as ever but in the film she’s kind of a waste. In general, I’m fine with the film itself, and more than fine with Matthew McConaughey’s convincing performance. Watching him play is, honestly, a sensational experience indeed. Like I said, if you take it as a fairy tale, it’ll make more sense to you, and may even be able to move and enlighten you in the end. Plus, it’s got plot twists that I didn’t quite expect in the first place. They aren’t just made to surprise you mindlessly. They’re to explain things purposely. Why that particular place in Japan? Why that particular Japanese man? Why that particular conversation? Why ‘the sea of trees’ is a perfect place to be? Well, the final act wrenches my heart in a good way!

Fairy tales usually come with a happy ending. Is the ending of ‘The Sea Of Trees’ happy? I guess I’ll leave that for you to find out! Words like happy, perfect… are pretty dreamy and yuppie. Sometimes we all wish to be perfect for the one we think is perfect. But a matter of fact, we don’t know what is perfect at all! Probably one of the perfect things we’ve been repeating perfectly is that we only know it’s already perfect when we lose it!