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.
2006 Directed by Darren Aronofsky
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.
Brent Lambert Philippe Lord Félix Larivière-Charron Frédéric Amblard Alex Touikan Martine Giguère-Kazemirchuk Daniel Hamelin Jean-Pierre Lavoie
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
Fonte da Vida, The Fountain - Quell des Lebens, A forrás, Fontána, Źródło, 천년을 흐르는 사랑, Фонтан
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 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.…
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 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…
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…
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…
"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…
ambitious to a fault, far too much for both aronofsky and jackman to handle. the outcome of the director's largest budget to date is a movie that drunkenly stumbles the line between confusing and boring until it just explodes. aronofsky's worst
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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.…
After he destroyed the world with Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky brought peace, sadness, and love with The Fountain. Definitely the most different from Aronofsky's filmography so far, straying away from his indie roots to go a little bit more mainstream with this. But he still keeps his integrity with the gorgeous visuals and heartbreaking story on morality and the neverending cycle of trying to find immortality. The movie beautifully tells us of appreciating what we have because anything beautiful eventually leaves forever, but at least we'll have the memories of them. Truly beautiful stuff.
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…
I found Darren Aronofsky's film to be a creative, compelling, poignant story of mans obsession with beating death! I was especially enthralled with the story his dying wife had written! And more importantly the journeys destination... the road to awe!
There is a strong fantasy element to it which may be off putting for some. But it truly adds to the film in my not so humble opinion! I feel I need to revisit this film because it was so wonderfully wild and wooly and genuinely profound!
I never enjoyed Hugh Jackman more than in this role! He totally owned this film!
Beautiful cinematography! An extraordinary journey that I hope to experience again and again!
Ya Tuhan ya rabb, apa arti dari dunia dan kehidupan ini???
In other words, too artsy for me.
I’ll admit, this was a hard film to understand. I actually had to go back and read the synopsis after watching to fully grasp what I had just watched.
However, while watching this film, I was in awe of the cinematography and the music throughout the movie. This is one of the beautiful movies I’ve ever seen when talking about the artistic point of view.
This movie can be interpreted in many different ways and I think that is what Darren Aronofsky was trying to do for the viewers. In my point of view, I think the reunion is settled at the end of the film although it’s not really explained.
Overall, a wonderful film experience and one that I will go back to. Definitely not my favorite Darren Aronofsky film, but it is definitely a good film with one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard
While watching this I was mostly confused. Towards the end I started understanding it a bit more. I still liked it a lot, I just wish it was more clear on things. If it was, it might’ve been a favorite of mine.
I rlly liked the way it was heading but i just cant figure out if i liked the ending (or even understood)
Man I just don’t care at all for Aronofsky when he’s in his religious bag. The acting is fine and the cinematography is fantastic but my god is the story so fucking boring. It also doesn’t help by how much he jumps between stories and tells them in the most confusing and dull way possible. Again the film looks great and sounds great too, but that doesn’t come close to hiding all of the other shit found within here. There just isn’t much of any enjoyment to be had when Aronofsky is trying too hard to replicate the bible, like dude just go preach in a church or something, come back when you’ve got that out of…
I'm trying not to review older films since its hard enough to keep up with newer ones. Yet, re-watching The Fountain 15 years after first seeing it, I felt compelled to make an exception. This film, which failed on both a critical and box office level upon its release, was, in retrospect, predictably doomed. It is so ambitious, and deals with such profound themes, that the inattentive average movie-goer or critic-on-a-deadline is likely to miss a lot. That's a pity. A second screening allowed me to focus on a number of things I had missed in 2006. I had remembered the art direction as being unique, but this time I found it quite beautiful as well -- the gold and…
I absolutely love Aronofsky's body of work. The Fountain is near the bottom. Here, Darren really really goes for it, tries to make his masterpiece. I consider it a pretty big misfire, but, it is still good to see a director aim this high.
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