I need to start with ‘okay that was strange’. A baby born of barke, sap and shaped by it’s father using all kinds of tree cutting implements to create the infant. Ohh let me point out, the couple could not concieve normally. The couple are so cut up about not being able to have a baby that they start imagining baby related incidents everywhere. A tree baby is born! Very much like jesus but this is a tree… not a person. Time out New York said this was “hilariously chilling”, I for one would disagree. No part of this film made me laugh, and theres something ineptly creapy about a root that comes to life and starts attacking people, and eating them. This film directly links with the fall of the amazon rain forrest, a drunken logger obviously saw this film, got creeped out, decided that he didn’t want to be eaten by a tree and subsiquently decided to cut down all the trees he could find. All that aside, I must say that I didn’t and couldn’t relate to this film in any way. I havn’t tried to have a child, I don’t want to create my own wooden cretin and I certainly don’t get anything out of this film besides more of a reason to keep roots of trees well and truely in the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdLUrC6copM
