I think I got it. Pretty sure. So let’s open it up. Comments/speculations i found on don’t seem to follow this route but i think it must be like this.
(if this is not the plot... Terrence Malick you should have made the plot like this

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Lets check the happenings in trailer first (referring the video on first post)
0:8-0:15 Birth of universe and man (First there where now atoms etc so all matter was like.. well clouds (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_%28cosmology%29)
0:15-0:17 Yucatan meteor impact (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater)
0:58 End of sun Or mercury really close. But End of sun fits better. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formati...e_Solar_System)
1:20 Well end of sun life cycle as said.
1:27 Lets get back to this bit later.
1:29 refers to earth rise (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise) and that way how earth is one of the kind in universe
1:33 Main char is workingclearly at Nasa when he gets older. (science)
1:40 Dna
1:46 and now to plot. The water is gone. People walking and main char is desperate.
Lots of images about water also generally. Ok 0:15-0:17 first i thought its Yucatan BUT since at 1:46 there is no water and the main char looked desperate... its more likely Tsunami wave that is coming. (before tsunami the water escapes really suddenly away from shore) Remember that main char was working at Nasa and he looked really thinking his life. So 0:15-0:17 its meteor impact on present day that will wipe all life as we know it. (One part is tsunami from impact) It will make new branch on tree of life.
Ou right that was the name! (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_%28science%29)
So now the scene 1:27 makes more sense. What they are doing? Spraying DDT to humans. So kind of obvious reference of getting rid of something. Like humas.
So my speculation about plot and meaning of the movie is about thinking what you do here. How you make your life meaningful after you die and that’s underlined by not just thinking your life... thinking the whole tree of life and we as humans in this planet. Part of tree of life.
And one thing. As said heavy on science and all details seems to be accurate. Not just random space scenes etc. So now lets look the final part
1:53-1:56 Thought that why there is an effect here? Its not part of the movie logo? OK it covers Sean Penn? No.. wait it covers clearly PE. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidyl_ethanolamine) (Cephalin is found in all living cells, although in human physiology it is found particularly in nervous tissue such as the white matter of brain, nerves, neural tissue, and in spinal cord.)
If this is just lucky incident then there is yellow hedgehog flying outside my window and singing opera.
Well when more details come out lets see…
As said this was pretty close the way secret are laid down on Trials HD so I started to unwrap. Must be my longest post.
