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 an absolutely dazzling 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…

Hugh Jackman's character Tommy is such a dickhead in this film that he falls asleep three pages into his dying wife's last novel, after she practically begs him to read it. Death is an escape. Well, we all know what from Hugh, eh.

I thought I would revisit The Fountain, after seeing and laughing at mother!, as I had very warm feelings towards it on release and would have said it was probably Darren Aronofsky's best film. Ambitious, audacious, energetic. Adjectives people are wrongly applying to mother!

I had forgot that it started with a quote from Genesis. The panic set in at that moment, had I forgotten that I was in for 90 minutes of Aronofsky interfering with the…

If I'm being honest, Darren Aronofsky is the closest we are ever going to get to Stanley Kubrick.

Although I personally didn't think The Fountain was great, I thought it was fairly good. I can understand its cult status. What really interested me is seeing that this is a work of Aronofsky. As expected, this film is quite intriguing and thought provoking. Delving into themes of: love, loss, letting go, metaphysics, and the bible; The Fountain is an astoundingly ambitious motion picture. There's no denying Aronofsky is ahead of his time. He's genuinely a master at directing and creating mind bending films. The film is just quite flawed so it can put some off in even seeing the significance of…

Aronofksy starts with a familiar concept of The Garden of Eden. When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, he hid the tree of life from humanity thus making them mortal. There are few filmmakers in this day who are willing to such tackle complex religious issues. This is a highly flawed film, with a lackluster script, mediocre performances, and a director with the inability to handle dialogue or emotion. However, this is a visual treat for the eyes with fantastical concepts and ideas.

The Fountain spins the idea of seeking immortality and coping with death through not only Christian views but also the stories of the ancient Mayans. Research biologist Tom Creo (Jackman) is struggling to save…