The Tree of Life (2011)

Terrence Malick's film opens on a line from Job — "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?" — and then shows you the foundations being laid, for twenty minutes, before returning to a family in 1950s Texas.

⚠ IT IS NOT A KABBALISTIC FILM AND THIS NODE SAYS SO. Malick's frame is Christian and philosophical — Heidegger, Augustine, Job. It is here because it does the thing this wing is about: it answers a theological question with IMAGES rather than argument, and stakes everything on whether looking at creation can do the work that an explanation cannot.