Synopsis
Death is the road to awe
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
The Fountain
2006 Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Cast
Director
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Cinematography
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Art Direction
Set Decoration
Brent Lambert Philippe Lord Félix Larivière-Charron Frédéric Amblard Alex Touikan Martine Giguère-Kazemirchuk Daniel Hamelin Jean-Pierre Lavoie
Visual Effects
Henrik Fett Matthew Gratzner Persis Reynolds Jenny Foster Louis Morin Phil Jones Michel Héroux Mark G. Soper Laurent M. Abecassis Raymond Gieringer Gunnar Hansen Peter Oberdorfer
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Studios
Regency Enterprises Protozoa Pictures New Regency Pictures Muse Entertainment Warner Bros. Pictures Mel's Cite du Cinema
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Alternative Titles
Fontána, The Fountain - Quell des Lebens, Fonte da Vida, A forrás, Źródło, 천년을 흐르는 사랑, Джерело
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Faith and religion Humanity and the world around us Epic history and literature death, profound, symbolism, philosophical or surreal journey, scientific, humanity, documentary or breathtaking earth, sci-fi, space, spaceship or mankind religion, church, faith, beliefs or spiritual jesus, religion, faith, holy or beliefs Show All…
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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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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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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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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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"All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pulled me through time."
Death as an act of creation. Aronofsky's magnum opus The Fountain is a holy fortress of richly layered emotion, a film that traverses many centuries of life (real or imagined in the film, I'm still not sure), a profound and complex look at the concept of death and how it's part of life's natural cycle. The way the narrative circles intertwine and converge within each other is stunning...the movie depicts life's fascination with finding a cure for death (driven by love, an almost eternal love) but one could argue that love and death coexist beautifully. Love makes life worth living and we should live our lives…
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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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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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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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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.…
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The secret of immortality is that we already possess it.
It feels pointless and reductive using words to express what this film made me think and feel.
This is beautiful.
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