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Just before we started dating, my girlfriend and I went together to see Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in theaters. I remember sitting there for the first hours with my jaw wide, marveling at the strange ways it intermingled modern life and the birth of the universe.

So we went together again to see Malick's Voyage of Time this past weekend. It's a documentary, sort of. It's more like a meandering visual poem, taking inspiration from The Tree of Life's trippiest parts and turning them into a 40-minute overview of how we went from the Big Bang to modern humans — with some occasional Brad Pitt narration to top it all off.

There isn't necessarily anything groundbreaking about the film, no one point you can walk away saying you necessarily learned from or loved. But there's something wonderful about seeing all this history unfold over 40 minutes, watching our planet go from nothing to a green surface. Somehow, when you're dramatizing the existence of everything, the emergence of bacteria becomes strangely inspiring.

Check out seven trailers from this week below.