April 12, 2007
This movie was the best film of 2006 and is be remember as a beautiful and unforgetable movie experience
User Comments for The Fountain
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April 4, 2007Oh, thank God. I will admit that this cover is better, but anything would have been better next to that piece of filth they were shoving down our throats.
I'm still not happy with it, but it is a BIG improvement. I particularly like the image they chose to use for the actual DVD.
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April 2, 2007Thank goodness they decided to change the cover!!! It looks WAY better than before!! I can't wait to see this movie!
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April 2, 2007They decided to change the artwork! woohoo!!! =D
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March 29, 2007
And now, the cover. They cheapened, trivialized and basically spat all over the concept of the film. the poster was brilliant and this is just belittling. But you know what? I don't care. I'll still buy it and watch it over and over. Fuck commercialism.
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March 29, 2007
That cover is disgraceful, a lot like every other humiliation that this masterpiece has been put through due to the stupidity of the regular film consumers who went into the theater expecting to see sword fights or aliens with cool special effects "lol", because hey, apparently it's a sci-fi film. GOD FORBID people would have to think. God forbid that poetry enter the world of film. Well, surprise surprise, this is ART. Art is meant to break patterns and to surpass boundaries, and it pains me that there still are so many culturally impaired people that simply refuse to accept originality, talent and mastery even when it's staring them in the face. Originality in a director is something that should be praised, not condemned...
This film is so deep, so strongly human, so profoundly beautiful, so mesmerizingly magical and real at the same time. It's a work of art, a masterpiece in so many ways. -
March 25, 2007
hey everyone!
this is what the dvd will look like:
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/the-fountain.html
I think it's really cheesy !
If you agree with me, you can go there: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/board/nest/69878772
It's a petition to change the artwork and put special features on the dvd. I don't know if it will work but if we don't try, we'll never know.
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March 8, 2007It is the tragic fate of brilliance to be left unrecognised by but the select few. The profound is often lost upon deaf ears or ignorance, geniuses are often thought of as raving eccentrics. The Fountain is, sadly, such an example. Scoffed at by critics and regular movie goers as ‘weird’ ‘flawed’ or ‘confusing’, Darren Aronofsky’s latest (and greatest) work of art has certainly met the fate of originality before it. And The Fountain, if anything else, is original. In an industry where even independent and arthouse cinema follows formulas and conventions and where mainstream junk- packaged with the silvery conviction of a healthy pay check rules a box office fed by morons, Aronofsky has made a bold move in this wacky ‘new age Razzle Dazzle’.
And it’s easy to back away from new ideas. Some critics just don’t have the confidence to back something as fresh and as exciting as the Fountain- or perhaps they’ve just miss the point. Critics have attacked the ‘convoluted’ storyline as bewildering, claiming that the multi non-linear plot lines are difficult to follow.
It makes me wonder if they even watched the film.
Yes, there are multiple storylines, and yes they are each as vastly different in terms of aesthetic and setting as can be- but, to me, The Fountain has one of the simplest plot lines you can encounter. All the Fountain is, is a love story. A very simple love story told through a whole host of metaphors and fantastical representations that bombard you from start to finish. You can’t miss it.
The film isn’t linear- it isn’t even physical. It’s not about what happens or where the characters go- it’s about what you, the audience, feel. Each lavishly constructed shot, each dripping concoction of gold and white tells a story of love, in a purely sensual effect that is equally as accentuated by the dramatic magnum opus that is Clint Mansell’s brilliant score. It isn’t about how a Spanish conquistador, a desperate surgeon or a man floating through space and ti -
January 28, 2007Ok, I've been reading lots of posts of people confused by the whole jackman turning into flowers. Its actually one of the few simple ideas to explain, remember the discussion about the mayan tour guide and his father becoming the tree; the secret to enternal life was an assimilation with nature ("he flew with the birds"), but this is obviously in context to the fictional story Izzy wrote. Tommy's character turning into the flowers was his eternal life through the tree. It was another way of them being together through death, whilst playing on the idea of death is the catalyst for creation. Such an amazing movie. Hope that helped.
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December 11, 2006*spoiler*
my personal interpretation of the film was this: that love, is everlasting, and thus immortal, living forever. in a very spiritual sense, it is that our souls leave our bodies, and never die. One's soul is immortal, and is simply born into life in a decaying prison, but is freed once that prison dies.
and as for the flowers: the tree of life was said to give birth to life of the earth, so in a sense, it is the earth soul. but the tree did not give birth to adam and eve, it sustains the earth, but living creatures are separate from the earth, thus foreign, so the tree simply created more earth when bounded to a foriegn object.
thats just one of my theories on this movie, and i have lots more! such a good movie! -
December 4, 2006Yeah, I'm also confused about the flowers...
***SPOILERS***
If I could ask Aronofski one question about the film I would ask him what was going on with that whole thing. It's the one thing that throws of some of my ideas about the movie. My view on it, and the entire movie, is that it's realy not about 2 people living for thousands of years, and only the present day couple really ever exist. I know that may sound stupid, but think about it: He's reading her book titled "the Fountain" which could be the begining of the entire thing [finding the tree of life, etc] and she want's him to "finish it", which could acount for the "future" pieces of the film. Them being the ending he writes. The part about the flowers could then merely be a thought of his, about the story, about life, etc...
I hope this made sense. Did anyone else come to this conclusion?
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November 28, 2006hey everyone! does anybody know what the significance is of hugh jackman turning into the white flowers? i thought that part was confusing...
