Reviews of The Fountain 2006
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"Top 100 of all time Selection"
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"Top 10 Films 2006 Selection""Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul."
You don't watch The Fountain, you experience it, Darren Aronofsky created not only a philosophy but an understanding of love, death and acceptance.
The story is basic, in one…
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There is a lot wrong with this film. Its script is unnecessarily convoluted and it confuses in order to hide a flawed narrative. It hops and skips too often and in doing so tries to over complicate the simplicity of the story.
And I could not care less about all that.
This is one of the most beautiful visual representations of loss, grief, spirituality and obsession I've ever seen. Aronofsky manages to find an impressive balance between subtle imagery and…
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The Fountain is Darren Aronofsky’s one and only critical failure as a director, yet whilst it may be overwrought and with delusions of grandeur it is a film I find myself warming to more and more with each new viewing. It is a film that requires the audience to buy into the world depicted on screen otherwise it can be a tortuously silly exercise in metaphysical claptrap. However, if you are willing to invest, and forgive its innate pretentiousness and…
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Clint Mansell makes this movie a masterpiece. No doubt, Darren Aronofsky is an excellent director, and he crafts an epic tale here, but it is the score to this film that captured my heart and rocked my world. It is so moving, so powerful and fits so perfectly with the tone of the film. Synthesis I guess, is what I'm getting at. The plot itself is a little hokey and some of the symbolism is a bit obvious (tree of life, garden of eden etc...) I still think this is Aronofsky's best and most underrated film. Give it a shot, even for the score alone.
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Emotional and beautifully told, dealing with loss and the coming to terms with one's mortality. Allowing for repeated motifs, 'The Fountain' elegantly interweaves two (arguably) fictional stories into the main one of the movie's reality. Smartly, this enables complex interpretations through the knowledge of their authors' respective perspective and intent. Jackman's flawless performance is one for the ages. I also agree with several other reviewers that Clint Mansell's score is sublime.
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This is one of the most beautifully flawed films I've ever seen. It's dazzling to look at, but it is just riddled with problems.
The main problem is that it tries too hard to make the story more than it already is. The time skips felt repetitive and pointless to me. Like the whole film could have just been the present day one and I think the message could have resonated just fine. It was the only part I was…
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A truly remarkable, original, interesting, and mystifying work of art that astounds in every possible way. Rachel Weisz is beyond ethereal and captivating as both Queen Isabel and Izzi Creo, Hugh Jackman's performance is nothing short of heart-wrenching and genuinely magnificent, and their on-screen relationship is so full of feeling and emotion that you can't help but be swept up in the narrative. From screenplay to cinematography to costume to soundtrack--I can't for the life of me find a legitimate…
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Darren Aronofsky is a filmmaker I greatly admire, yet I have never truly loved any of his films; but I don’t believe that’s his intention. With tough subject areas, graphic violence and a perplexing style, each of Aronofsky’s films are purpose-built to distance the audience. However, they are deliberately packed with thematic symbolism, visual metaphor to provide a unique piece of cinema that you can sink your teeth into.
In terms of style, The Fountain is certainly his most accomplished…
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Another film I have watched due to letterboxd acclaim, which has resulted in me being pretty confused. However after a quick read up online I think I managed to grasp it.
Nothing more than a simple story of love and death. It's crazy how Aronofsky does it. It's a beautifully flawed masterpiece.
Originally planned to be a $70million budget film with a casting of Pitt and Blanchett as the main characters, the film was turned down as stars left and…