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

On a superficial level, 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…

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…

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 trite mysticism, you may well discover a moving story about the transcendent power of love and eternal connectedness.

It is still a compromised vision, cut down from Aronofsky’s original intended story (which you can read in comic book form), yet…

The Fountain is a masterpiece. There is no argument about that. In my humble opinion, Darren Aronofsky hasn't topped it yet. It's a tight, rich, and magnificent exploration of how far love can go, and what human-beings can do because of love. The Fountain was easily one of the most powerful viewing experiences that I ever had, because I first saw it late at night, with no idea what it was about. I was hooked from the first frame, and by the end, I was weeping. Hell, I didn't even know why I was weeping, it just hit me in a way that very few films have. Also, The Fountain is a film that is hard to review, so please…

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"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.…

Darren Aronofsky's film about coming to terms with the eventuality of death is beautifully made, artistic and ambitious, but somewhat annoying. I was captivated by the opening, in which we meet various iterations of our hero, Tommy, across space and time, even across reality and mythology. In fiction/history/myth, he's a Spanish explorer and warrior, encountering the Mayan hordes. In space, he's a meditating baldie in religious robes, floating among the stars. But in real life, he's a neurosurgeon who manages to cure a lab animal of its brain cancer using an untested substance obtained from a Guatemalan tree. So when Tommy's wife Izzy develops a brain tumour, he thinks he can help.

Some of the fantasy elements appear to be…