Colleen Claes

Colleen Claes
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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January 08
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Freelance Writer
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I'm a freelance writer and blogger when I'm not working 9 to 5. I graduated in 2009 with a B.A. in film and screenwriting. I'm particularly interested in the intersection of media (usually film) and culture. I've contributed to Examiner.com as the Chicago Cult Classics Examiner and have been interviewed by USA Today for my film expertise. I write at a few other places (both for myself and other people), which you find below My Links.

JUNE 21, 2011 3:56PM

'Tree of Life': All I Can Formulate Thus Far

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In the “boyhood” chapter of the film, Jack (the main character) as a child is running around with other neighborhood boys, causing a ruckus, encapsulating the very meaning of “boys will be boys.”

They fling rocks into the windows of (probably) abandoned houses. They find a frog and attach it to a bottle rocket, its tiny arms clinging cluelessly just before being launched into the sky. It feels innocent and cruel at the same time.

A random boy yells at the top of his lungs to no one in particular: “He was part of an EXPERIMENT!”

Once the movie ends, it is clear that we were as well.

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yikes. monstrous boys. go to the damn island and
do the "lord of the flies" thing, guys.
innocent cruelty is not a good sign.
i used to catch frogs gently and put em in a bucket for awhile.
if any died, i would be miserable.
like when, whoops, i put them in chlorinated pool water.
lesson learned.