The Fountain
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Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Hugh Jackman plays that man, devoted to one woman (Rachel Weisz) and determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to a Tree of Life...and to an adventure into eternity. Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) directs, continuing his string of imaginative, involvi... More >>
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Summary: take a Spanish conquistador, a shaved tree-hugger and a monkey brain surgeon as embodiments of the same fellow; add to it generous quantity of corny cliched dialogues and you have the Fountain.
It is an over-”intellectualized” and over-”spiritualized” sci-fi drivel melodrama kind of a flick.
For very select audience.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ll sum this up in layman’s terms…1.HARD TO FOLLOW. 2. HARD TO GET INTO. 3. NEVER understood it. 4. THE ENDING? HUH? . 5.Cannot believe Hugh Jackman would make a movie as horrible as this.
Rating: 1 / 5
Given a purely visual sequence, Darren Aronofsky presents a stream of images and music, stunning and imaginative. His eye for design is remarkable and new, and his ear for composition is breathtaking. His narrative, however, is something quite different. Not only trite and boorish, but yet another example of careless ineptitude, with regards to key elements of story-telling. Much like Aronofsky’s “breakthrough” film, ‘Pi,’ ‘The Fountain’ appears overly-pretentious, cliché, and utterly annoying. While in the theater, I remember thinking more about what I was going to do after seeing the film, than the film itself.
I’ve often found that many people are too quick to judge an inescapably mundane film some sort of artistic achievement, purely due to its deviation from the norm. If you don’t understand it, it’s probably smart; right? In the case of ‘The Fountain’, I found myself wishing I didn’t understand the film; that way, at least I could play ignorant. At least then I could leave the theater with some sense of wonder. Instead, I left completely unchanged. Aronofsky had done the same thing again: he’d created something workaday, yet packaged it in something grand.
For all its mesmerizing visuality and hypnotic harmony, ‘The Fountain’ merely toys with the Big Questions, and never really gives any incite. Aronofsky really cuts off his nose to spite his face with all of his hack-editing and repetitive sequences. Issues like ‘love conquering science,’ ‘man questioning God,’ and the ‘acceptance of death’ are strewn together and mixed widely without any forethought or strategy. The great tragedy of this film rests solely in those who have faith in it: as noted throughout, the soundtrack is phenomenal and the cinematography is right-on; the acting is superb; and the passion is without question, dignified. Unfortunately, these virtues seem wasted given the shallowness of the film as a whole.
Rating: 2 / 5
Don’t waste your money or time. There really isn’t any story line. No plot. No moral guidance. The hero does not save the girl, he may not even have saved the monkey. There are a lot of views of a bald hero confined to a mystic bubble floating through space towards a “dying star” while everything else is floating in the other direction. This is a clear case of “emperor’s new clothes.”
Rating: 1 / 5
This is one of the worst film ever. Unfortunately, I did not read the reviews first before renting it. You probably have to be a Zen Buddhist to appreciate this one…total waste of time!!!
Rating: 1 / 5