The Fountain

I had the great pleasure of watching Darren Aronofsky's briliant "The Fountain" tonight. Great acting work by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz made good but the film excels in its cinemathic beauty and glorious interplay of reality and fiction, a theme used by many of this years' filmakers. Aronofsky makes us walk away from this movie in a total philosophic output. He pushes us to question love, fantasy, life and death in a metamorphisis of romance and unconditional beauty. Jackman plays a doctor looking for the cure to save his beautiful partner, played by Weisz. He tries many ways to cure her; with his medical knowledge, with his aid to Spain and his ferocious love. Weisz tries to be realistic about her death , telling him to leave to Spain, to finish the book, to give up. His wanting of her to be alive is conflicting with her willingness to let go. This conflict goes through centuries of time. He tries to save her with the tree of life but she tells him to let go, by finishing the book. Anyways, this is just one way of seeing this film!!!! I loved it no matter what way i can spin the plot. A great grade.