This is what The Fountain is really about

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2006)

"The Fountain is about one man's journey from darkness into light. The passageway between them, which connects shadow to truth, is the struggle. It is the playground for Tom's fight against death, and ironically, as a result, his fight against life. We tried to visualize this by capturing him screaming out of black, stumbling through gold, and eventually finding peace in white.
Tom's voyage beings in the vast loneliness of black space. He rises up into the body of a swirling golden nebulae, where memories of his life with Izzi haunt him. Eventually, he comes to understand his purpose as he breaks out of the celestial cloud and into the blinding truth about Xibalba, a dying white star." -- Darren Aronofsky, director of The Fountain