The Fountain Reviews

It's about enlightenment, life and acceptance all mixed together in a way no other film has touched yet.

You see on The Fountain Tom's wife Izzi is dying and he's desperately trying to find a cure to save her.
What confuses people and splits viewers down the middle is the clever paralleled plot threads concerning them.

We have three strains, Tom in the Present, Tom in the Future, or Tom in the past. Yet the past being Izzi's book or previous life. Her book pretty much symbolizes the struggle and strife of her cancer.
So the tree of life is the center of the story yet not the center.
The two, Tom & Izzi are the center of attention on outside appearances.

The real message of The Fountain is acceptance. It's hard to lose a loved one and we've all got to do it at some point in our lives. This movie achieves the bold effort of crossing the line and giving answers that we may not want to hear but gives anyway.

Religious people discard Fountain as Sci-fi babble, cynics see a guy in a bubble and dismiss it's purpose, others see the fancy effects and don't have a clue to the substance and intricacies of a love story and an eternal battle with mortality.