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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★ 25

  It's about life. It's about death. It's about love. It's about loss. It's about desire. It's about obsession. It's about mortality. It's about eternity. It's about spirituality. It's about duality. It's philosophical. It's symbolic. It's artistic. It's pretentious. It's unique. It's flawed. No matter what your opinion about The Fountain is, there is no denying that it is a singularly stimulating experience.

  On the surface, this sci-fi saga is a quest of one man's thousand years struggle to save the very woman he loves and although the plot is quite complex for some viewers to follow, it eventually holds up well over repeated viewings. The story follows three parallel plotlines spanning over a thousand years, each set in a different…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 37

  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 bombastic splendour. He thus accompanies the main characters' search for acceptance of loss, travel through grief and pursuit of redemption.

  The raw emotion, captured in the guise of a stunning Jackman, is what resonates most within me. He is the…

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★ 55

  Mild spoilers, but the film isn't worth watching anyway.

  Looking through my friend's ratings, I anticipate some people will disagree massively with my review. Sorry!

  What a bunch of nonsense. The Fountain isn't even enjoyable nonsense, it's just overindulgent and boring. I'm not a fan of Darren Aronofsky's films, although I gave a few some generous ratings in my teenage years. Watching The Fountain just solidified my issues with his films. It thinks it's so deep, touching upon some universal truth regarding love and death, and it just isn't. Evoking Christianity and other religions is a cheap trick, a way to add pseudo-philosophy by name-dropping something spiritual. Luckily Aronofsky doesn't seem to run out of other gimmicky motifs which he can…

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  Review by Ashton ★★★

  Darren Aronofsky seems like the kind of friend that might ask you how you're doing and you could be having an off day and say "I'm a little depressed today, Darren" and he'd be like "ya, well I'm the MOST depressed today," and then just walk away.

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  Review by Dan ★★★★

  this movie is very beautiful and I cried but I can't get over the fact that hugh jackman ate the tree of lifes nut? a freak

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½

  kinda like bubble boy... only not

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  Review by Sam Thompson ★★★★½ 12

  I don't even fully get it but its just left me in a wreck... and I don't even know why.

  I fully understand why people aren't a fan of this movie, I mean the last half an hour is absolutely bonkers. Obviously, it's one of those movies that is a puzzle. Some movies like this work for me where I might not know what is happening all the time but I want to find out. I want to do the puzzle. Then there are some films of this kind where for whatever reason it just doesn't work.

  This film worked for me and from the get-go I was invested. Often films of this nature can have long runtimes but I…

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  Review by iana ★½ 2

  lmao NOPE

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★ 2

  The Fountain. 2006. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.

  The Fountain (2006) is an epic journey through life, love, death, and rebirth directed by Darren Aronofsky. The fountain is tantamount to splicing several Calm app episodes together for a nice night of sleeping and dreaming. Hugh Jackman (Tomas) is shown moving from Conquistador, genetic engineer, to monk as he cycles in and out of lives trying to save his true love, Rachel Weiss (Isabel Creo). The score by Clint Mansell is relaxing and not overbearing. It is perfect for moving the script along. Overall, Aronofsky’s blend of Spanish history, Genetics, Love, Death, and Buddhism as displayed via CGI and on location sets makes for a intellectual yet meditative viewing experience. Films such…

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★ 2

  what an ugly duckling this is; the vibe of a symphonic metal music video combined with a golden/black color palette which i'm convinced was a clear inspiration for deus ex: human revolution, the temporal cross-cutting ambitions of a cloud atlas, and that very specific garish early-digital glaze over all these close-ups of hugh jackman grimacing into a great big half-considered new age existential quandary. i'm more impressed that aronofsky actually got this funded & released than i am interested in the film itself, which is too wrapped up in its own perennial-symbolist logic to ever cohere for me as an affecting drama. aronofsky definitely feels like an ideas-first filmmaker, and the story spirals out to illustrate these ideas. not really my thing, but i respect the willingness to make something that's this concept-heavy and not have it be conventionally entertaining.

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  Review by C4rlo5 ★★½

  “Death as an act of creation.”

  Here we have a love story directed by Darren Aronofsky.

  It’s about a man who tries to find the cure for the tumor of his wife.

  This movie is not very long, which is not a bad thing, I always say that if you can tell what you want to tell in 90 minutes, you don’t need 150 to make it better, but in this case there are too much things in a short period of time.

  It tells the story through three storylines, past, present and future helped by a strong presence of Mayan culture. It has a good pacing, a couple of interesting characters and a good acting by the hand of…

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  Review by Javo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ★★★★★ 5

  Top 100 of all time Selection
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  Top 10 Film 2006 Selection
  Director Series: Darren Aronofsky

  "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 hand is about love and in the other is about life and death. There are three stories that mirror each other, one is in the past, another in the present and the third in the future.…