Can the human heart handle immortality?

Rating: 9/10 (3 July 2007)

For those who dissed the movie, I can see their point. My 2 cents, this flick provoked in me strong emotions about a few concepts, but the most striking one for me was... if you could have immortality of body, could your mind and spirit take it? If you loved someone "more than life itself" (do we ever really understand what that phrase means?), how would you reconcile the loss of that purpose? Would it eat at you, and destroy you psychologically and/or spiritually?
** begin spoiler**
Tommy lost his purpose for living, in the person of Izzy, by a matter of hours. His driving obsession to cure his wife, brought upon himself his own immortality (a curse?) and immortality to the world (a gift, making him "first father"?). But he couldn't bear to go on. Instead, he chooses to end his life in a symbolic and meaningful fashion (to him, via elements of his wife's book, "the Fountain").
He sees his life without meaning, so he seeks to create a meaning with his death, in a tribute to his dead wife, via concepts in her book "the Fountain", of which he was so dismissive of when she was alive.
And if you were in that bubble for all those years, alone... you probably wouldn't seem rationale either, which he certainly wasn't (hallucinating, meditating to keep a grip, etc).
I thought the end was amazing. You see Tommy finish the end of the book, and his life, in dramatic (thats an understatement) fashion, bringing his wife's remains and a tree of life and himself to the dieing and recycling galaxy. And then you flashback to when he planted the seed of that eventual tree on her grave 500 yards previous, and he looks up at that galaxy, as if Aranofsky is telling you that that is the moment he decides what he will do. At least thats how I saw it. hey. Its your journey, you walk it. See if I care. :) **end spoiler**
the musical score was haunting (Im still humming it, and its a day later), the visuals are amazing. I liked how much they are ever-present in the scenes, some would call it overkill. I think its well-acted. And Im still thinking about the end, and what it would be like to go thru what Tommy did.