The Fountain Review
*** Spoiler Alert ***I watch The Fountain this weekend. Has anyone else seen it? I don't think any of my close friends have because if they had I think they would have warned me about it. It was not a bad movie, but it was a very weird movie. The movie is about Tommy (Hugh Jackman) and Izzi (Rachel Weisz). Tommy is a doctor researching new drugs to cure cancer. Izzi, his wife, is dying of brain cancer. In the process of looking for a cure for cancer Tommy finds the Tree of Life/Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately, he does not find it soon enough to save Izzi's life. The plot is actually pretty complex because it cuts be current time where Izzi is dying and he is looking for the cure for cancer, the future where Izzi is dead and he is presumable 100s of years old sill mourning her loss. The movie is about learning to deal with death, both your own and the ones you love. To further make the plot more complex there is also a third part of the story line which is a book that Izzi was writing when she was dying. She wrote all of it but the last chapter and asked Tommy to finish it. This book is about a Spanish Conquistador looking for the Fountain of Youth for the Queen of Spain. I actually would not have minded the entire movie being about this Conquistador as it was a pretty cool story line. Despite have a complex and weird plot I really like how the three plot lines from the past, present, and future all tie together. I don't want to spoil to much if you've not seen the movie, but in the end all three plot lines work together beautifully with Tommy learning to accept death as a part of life.
Right after the movie was finished I would have told you that I did not like it because it was so weird, but now that I've had some time to reflect on it I recognize it is a good movie. I really like how all the three sub-plots tie together in the end. If you've not seen The Fountain and you're looking for something different than the average action of comedy movie then I'd recommend checking it out.
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posted by Andy at
1:38 PM
2 Comments:
It's definitely a movie that grows on you and gets better with a second viewing. I was really impressed by Hugh Jackman's performance too. You're right, the conquistador scenes were really well done.
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franscud, At
September 4, 2007 4:30 PM
i found that the movie wasn't necessarily about the characters and their plots, to be honest. i think the future tommy isn't even real, i think thats how present tommy finished izzy's book. the future scenes in the bubble are the closing chapters in her book. i think that its more about the characters realizations and understandings about death and afterlife. My mother was recently diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and this movie really hit home, when the two of us watched it. my mother faught and survived but she said she was once as a point just like izzy, where she had accepted her fate, and wasnt afraid. not to say she gave up, cause thats far from the truth. but in todays society the focus of everything around us, our culture, and media, is telling us to be afraid of death. i think this movie is more about the feelings and understandings that you get afterwards, and the creation of our own thoughts and concepts on death and the afterlife.
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James, At
September 9, 2007 11:25 AM
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