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 \nCover photo:AP Photo  \nwww.commonwealmagazine.org  \n'Tree of Life,'divine suffering,etc.  \nMeanwhile,Edmund F.Kal's response(Letters,July 15)seems not to understandthat Aquinas,on whom I was drawingin my article,takes it to be evident(evengranted his teachings on analogy andGod)that God cannot suffer,period—as-suming that to suffer is to undergo an ef-fect,to be passive in some way.A vaguereference to\"the 'plurality'of the oneGodhead\"does not dispose of Aquinas'sarguments when it comes to the sufferingof God.BRIAN DAVIES,OP  \nMODEL REVIEW  \nWith his brilliant review of Terrence Ma-lick's The Tree of Life(August 12),RichardAlleva provides further evidence that heis the most gifted film critic appearingregularly in the Catholic press.Alleva isinsightful and yet cautious in analyzingMalick's very demanding film.  \nThe Tree of Life,more than any otherfilm I know of,depicts and explores themystery of being human and the depthof the divine.Alleva points out that someof the artistic devices Malick uses tackle amost difficult philosophical and religiousquestion:Why,if there is a loving Creator,do humans suffer?For example,Allevanotes that in the first twenty minutes ofthe film,Malick employs a small amountof dialogue,mournful music,and spe-cial lighting to draw us into an intimateidentification with a family's grief.Thosetwenty minutes are the beginning of anexperience that is,Isuspect,unique inthe history of cinema.Our identificationwith the family continues throughoutthe film.Malick never distances us fromtheir struggles and so,though we areobservers,much of what we observe isourselves.Even in scenes that we may notbe able to explain completely,the directorhas our attention.Though he observesand comments,he never removes orsolves the mystery.  \nBronx,N.Y","cbCaihO9bqjvbs3W","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihO9bqjvbs3W","pdf",3089048,32,"English","# Letters\n## Model Review\n## Hold Fast\n## Yes as Man; 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