Sensual masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2011)

-- This review contains spoilers! --
Darren Aronofsky and Clint Mansell have created a masterpiece of modern cinema, which, unfortunately, have been undervalued much.
I would like to tell about the mistakes in understanding the film, which arose from the trailer. The mistake is to attempt to present the story of film as parallel stories in the three time periods (1500, 2000, 2500). There is no fiction, and not so much philosophy. This is a film about feelings.
Despite the non-linear cut, which can confuse the viewer, the story is rationally intelligible, and the action takes place only in our days. The only fantastic part is the existence of a medicinal tree from Guatemala.
The script uses the same method as in Mulholland Drive - the main hero is sleeping part of time, but it is not shown directly. Another part of the film is occupied by the fictional events of the book. Dream, fantasy and reality shift each other to come together in a high point.
Young woman Izzi Creo is terminally ill. Her husband-oncologist Tom is desperately trying to find a way to save her, even neglecting the last hours of intercourse with her. He is looking for drugs that might be the extract of wood from Central America.
Izzie asks Tom to finish her book, "The Fountain", which in symbolic form tells about her illness, as the Inquisitor, the enslaving of medieval Spain. Search for drugs is shown in the book as searching for the mythical Tree of Life by conquistador in New Spain. Tom reads the manuscript in the hospital the night before her death.
After the funeral, Tom has a dream (pajamas on him is an indication of the sleeping). He falls to the dying star in a capsule with the Tree of Life. In this dream, there are many elements that are etched in his memory during the period of great emotional stress. The capsule falls on the star Xibalba, which has been showed by Tom's wife shortly before his death, talking about the beliefs of the Mayas. He talks to the Tree, whose value has been mentioned by Izzy and which represents for him the Life and the living wife (association: the hairs on the neck of his wife and the hairs on the bark of a tree). He also does a tattoo on the body, so he started to do the tattoo of wedding ring before going to bed. Periodically repeated in a dream when Izzy calls Tom for a walk, but he says that he is busy. He feels a strong sense of guilt over this episode, and at one point in sleep between work and walk with his wife he chooses walk.
Dream intersects with an unfinished book in the time of the murdering of conquistador by the Maya's priest. In the dream, Tom realized the futility of the wish of eternal life for the individual. He dies when the Tree of Life flowers germinates through him, and Xibalba explodes, giving birth of new stars. Tom is going through the catharsis, and accepts the reality.
Waking up, he goes to the grave of Izzy, and embeds the seed of a tree. He has finished her book.