The Fountain

PG-13 7.2
2006 1 hr 36 min Adventure , Drama , Science Fiction , Romance

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.

  • Cast:
    Hugh Jackman , Rachel Weisz , Ellen Burstyn , Mark Margolis , Stephen McHattie , Cliff Curtis , Sean Patrick Thomas

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Reviews

UnowPriceless
2006/11/22

hyped garbage

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Afouotos
2006/11/23

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Glucedee
2006/11/24

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Zlatica
2006/11/25

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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eceucler
2006/11/26

It's the most impressive movie I have ever seen and movie's wonderful soundtracks was created by Clint Mansell. All of the songs are fascinating but ''Death is the Road to Awe'' is completely a masterpiece.The acting is extremely good.

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thisanant
2006/11/27

I was once a fan of mystery genre and I watched this due to the name of Hugh Jackman . This was fantastic . No wonder it was commercially unsuccessful . One of the best and one of a kind . Amazing story , great acting and direction . It is visually stunning and emotionally fulfilling . Just don't expect a mindless blockbuster and you will be rewarded .

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cinemajesty
2006/11/28

Film Review: "The Fountain" (2006)To be an director as coming-from-nothing Darren Aronofsky, who found his voice with the micro-budgeted film "Pi" (1998) shot on 16mm Black & White filmstock in New York of Fall 1996 and premiering at Sundance Film Festival on January 1998 before claiming independent royalty with the film "Requiem of A Dream" (2000) premiering in May 2000 at Cannes Film Festival comes this third feature, attracting major internationally recognized leading cast with actor Hugh Jackman, playing three through inner space connected characters spreading one thousand years of time from a Spanish conquistador in the 16th century over a doctor in New York of the 21st century, watching out for a cure for cancer in order to recover his dying wife, performed by sweetly pro-life transcending actress Rachel Weisz, to the 26th century of a metaphysical existence in a bubble cell of micro-photography digital composing visualization of a complete isolated existence in a closed-up mind.Despite a major cut of production budget after witnessed dailies by New York-based producer Arnon Milchnan from 100 Million down to 30 Million U.S. Dollars, Director Darren Aronofsky delivers nevertheless the one film of a young career that shall be described as coming full circle as an artist, who indulged on cinema as the art-form of choice to express buried feelings, deep down below with the initial fear of death itself, visualizing with his fellow and trusted cinematographer Matthew Libatique in deep-black shaded golden color themes of the occasional white of an releasing white light in an 90 Minute editorial that keeps promises of accelerated suspense by urgent scene performances through actor Hugh Jackman, who manages to carry the picture all by himself within the character of Tom Creo, finding even common grounds with actress Rachel Weisz to bring love to life in a passionate kiss of extreme close ups to wide shots in a believable on-screen chemistry between the leading cast.Production Designer James Chinlund provides even with the previously mentioned budgetary cutbacks dungeon-like sets for the main character's state of mind from primitive sword-fighting slayings of the past to on sight laboratory enraged sufferings of the present and a closed sound stage micro set of the title-given vegetation of an idealized future that by watching "The Fountain" for the fourth time in ten years has nothing lost of its initial thought provoking nature of director Darren Aronofsky, who digested comprehensions on life and death by utilizing color, shapes, performances, sound design, a traumatic musical score by Clint Mansell and editing under time-restricted limitation for a Venice Film Festival world premiere on September 4th 2006 to an revisiting impact of motion picture sustainability, exposing the director's recent entrée "mother!" of 2017 as an Hollywood star exploiting vehicle of concluding CGI-apocalyptic proportions, where empathy in direct comparison to "The Fountain" of 2006 has been put to states of sub-zero, which may have been caused by an permanent damage of an artist, who needs limitations through guarding producers in order to function, which seems to be gone after an all-to-spoiled directing job of season 2012/2013 for Paramount Pictures and currently unfortunate Darren Aronofsky received his 100 Million dollar budget eventually.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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Rohit Gupta
2006/11/29

All Spoilers, just writing for my future self. So that I will be able to know myself when I will re watch he will re watch it.A biologist who is married (but has lost his engagement ring somehow) is about to loss his wife due to some sort of cancer (tumor). She is losing her senses (only shown to have lost sense for sensing temperature). She has a seizure and was admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile, our biologist is trying to find cure for tumor by testing different drugs on monkeys(the test subjects). While he was upset and thinking about her wife condition, nurse warned the doctor the the test subject has been open for some time and is about to die if nothing is done soon. So they tried everything and nothing worked. Then he realized (which is shown as looking up to peep in his mind palace), that some extract from some tree could help stabilize her (monkey). And it worked. The monkey is better than before except her tumor. But he wanted to cure tumor so that he can save his wife. His team tested the same herb on different subject and it worked except the tumor is there, which later on starts decreasing. Now there are two other sets are there in the movie. One is the doctors mind palace, shown as a shown in an invisible bubble traveling in space. Inside it is dead tree of life and the doctor as a monk. The other is the fountain the book which her wife was writing. He has to complete the last chapter of the book as she could do it. So in the last chapter he writes the person who attacked him somehow realizes that he is not the second one to come to him after his after but he is the faster only. So he offer his throat. The lead character of the story moves on to find the tree of life. He stabbed his dagger in the tree trunk. A white shampoo like liquid comes out it. Which when dropped on ground kick started the growth of weed (life). Then he healed his wounds withe the same liquid. Then for unknown reason started drinking the liquid. Which kick started the growth of weed throughout his body thus killing the body. Meanwhile the mind palace guy is going into an about to die start. Which die with a supernova thus killing him and reviving the tree of life.

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