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…

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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.…

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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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…