The Fountain (2006)

[LoveDog]

Anyone see this? It was directed by Aronofsky, same guy who did Requiem for a Dream and Pi.

Just saw it today....man, I thought it was really well done. I guess I have a fetish for slightly confusing plotlines that span about 1000 years of time. And I'm not ashamed that Hugh Jackman made me tear up a couple times...dude's role is a bit different from wolverine in this one. Better than Requiem imo....although a few friends of mine hated that film.

[mrjohnchimpo]

laura and I just watched this movie the other day off of Netflix.

i couldn't stand it. deliberately making a movie confusing is kinda starting to make me mad. although that could be because i'm getting older and my brain is slowly shutting down.

[mrjohnchimpo]

tree stomach was cool though.

[LoveDog]

Spoiler.

The main confusing portion for me was the floating in a bubble in outer space....like whether or not it was a dream, or the actual future (if he had indeed found the tree of life). Any writing I've seen online about the movie says that it's the actual future. I like that.

I think the rest of the plot is pretty self explanatory: brain surgeon is trying to save his wife who has a tumor, wife is writing a book about a conquistador for which the love-plot very much parallels their actual lives.... And just so happens that there's this tree that can make them live forever. whoops, didn't get the tree to the girl in time, shit might as well travel to a nebula in a bubble because the mayans know what's up.

[mrjohnchimpo]

i got the whole movie except for tree bubble (not to be confused with tree stomach, which i got).

there's nothing suggesting it was in space, no matter what the reviews/summaries say. i'm going with a dream sequence...especially since when the tree bubble sequences would end, i think he almost always was waking up.

[Soul Queen]

I thought the visuals on this movie were good.

But I don't think it was very clear what was going on. I read later that there were 3, let me put that in bold 3 plot lines. If I can make through a movie and not realize that... It wasn't a great movie.

I don't think the plot was very good at all.

[paul]

I loved Pi, and Requiem was cool, though a little to depressing.

Tree stomach?! Space bubble?! Confusing plot that spans 1000 years?! This sounds fucking awesome! Thanks guys, I'll check it out.

[larryhead]

i just bumped this into my netflix queue :)

here's the synopsis btw:

A man travels through time in an epic struggle to save the woman he loves and to understand the mysteries of life in this sci-fi drama. In three parallel stories spanning a millennium, Tom (Hugh Jackman) searches for a legendary tree believed to grant eternal life in 16th-century Spain; tries to discover a cure for his wife's (Rachel Weisz) cancer as a present-day scientist; and traverses the universe as a 26th-century astronaut.

[mrjohnchimpo]

he doesn't travel through time. i think one of the things that confused me originally was the netflix description is pretty incorrect.

also still no evidence of him being an astronaut in the "future" part, so i'm interpreting it as a dream.

[slam]

I loved Pi, and Requiem was cool, though a little to depressing.

Tree stomach?! Space bubble?! Confusing plot that spans 1000 years?! This sounds fucking awesome! Thanks guys, I'll check it out.

yeah, trust me, it sounds much cooler than it actually is. i was pretty disappointed by this film, but maybe that's just because my hopes were so high.

[Soul Queen]

yeah, trust me, it sounds much cooler than it actually is. i was pretty disappointed by this film, but maybe that's just because my hopes were so high.

agreed.

The general synopisis is that he also was an astronaut within the movie. It wasn't a dream sequence. Which goes to show how crappy the plots were put together.