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Fig. 5a–d: The pain of old age is removed, families are re- united, and reality’s veneer is stripped away in the apo- calypse depicted at The Tree of Life’s conclusion (Terrence Malick, US 2011), 02:08:52; 02:08:53; 02:08:44; 02:09:48. Narrative and Experiment, Religion and Politics in The Tree of Life | 179www.jrfm.eu 2019, 5/2, 167–185