this is 10/10

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2009)

anyone who didn't vote 10/10 for this movie, got it wrong. seminal director arrenofsky has crafted a beauty in The Fountain. It doesn't have the raw, carnal aspect of Pi or Requiem for a Dream, nor does it have the critical focus on acting of The Wrestler, it finds a middle ground between performance and visual impact. The representations of stellar space and nebulae (together with a fantastic martial arts sequence, Jackman's silhouette superimposed onto a canopy of stars)is incomparable with most cgi, imaginative fantasy, not realism, being the aspiration. The movement through time and space creates brilliant parallels and manufactures the sense that the moral is a comment on the human condition as a whole. A great love story, its all about what you can and cannot see. A gem.