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When I first saw this film, I really hated it because it was the single most bizzare and confusing film that I had ever witnessed. I went through the whole film without understanding one bit but after a second viewing I knew more about it because I had seen the film before and I remember the scenes. I understood it more too. Mostly because I could see this time about the intension of each of the characters particularly the three characters Hugh Jackman portrays. I can easily see now how beautiful this film really is. This film teaches us about love, death, spirituality and the fragility of our existence in this world. This film isnt just beautiful because of the characters but because of the beautiful and colourful sceneries particularly involving the Tomas in the book with the beard and long hair and mostly the bald Tomas with the Tree Of Life and the stars. Despite of how beautiful The Fountain is, it is really quite depressing because of Tomas and his wife Izzi. Izzi is dying from cancer and Tomas attempts to find a cure. It makes us think about whether there really is a cure of death somewhere in this world and because death is a so-called disease, life is our destiny and we do the best of what God gave us. This film is such an inspiration to a lot of people and it inspired me a lot. My really good friend Alex encouraged me to watch this again after I didnt like it at first. So thanks alot, Alex. I didnt realise how great this film really is.
Hugh Jackman delivers a really good performance as Tommy, Tom Creo and Tomas. They are all different characters and Jackman portrayed all three really accurately. He obviously looks different and all of the characters are completely different. The only thing they have in common is that they all try and achieve something even if it leads to anything drastic. Rachel Weisz delivers a really emotional and powerful performance mostly as Izzi but also as Queen Isabel. Izzi tries to teach Tom about immortality when he reads her book called The Fountain. Rachel makes Izzi a really loving and caring young woman and an easy person to get along with too.
The direction was simply amazing. The camera angles were awesome particularly on Tom Creo in the ball with the tree floating into the sky. I loved the absolutely awesome script. It is quite clever actually because it is really well written for such a complex and difficult film and hard plot. The script was very touching and was very beautiful too because I felt that all of the quotes that were said makes us think about two people in love forever. It is like Tomas and Izzi are in their own world in their own illusions.
This was my favourite Aronofsky film until I saw The Wrestler. The Fountain showed us how beautiful life can be and also how good death can be to us too. This people can teach people who to get over and move on from things that have involved their loved ones who has died. Also, like I said earlier in my review, it teaches us about what life is really like. The only little flaw in this film was that it only involved two people really where I think it would have been better if it were not just Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. I personally wished that Ellen Burstyn was in this film a bit more. For me, this film achieved a brand new style of science fiction films that we are hoping to see in the future.
7/10
