A set to be masterpiece about eternal love and the inescapable loss of love and life itself

Rating: 7/10 (13 September 2006)

Well tonight I saw The Fountain at the Film Kunst Messe in Leipzig. And what can I say, I was so anxious to see this piece, that it felt like Christmas and Eastern coming together, as I sat there full of expectations before they raised the curtain. After all, I loved every single bit of his two other movies, plus my best film buddy has filled me up with trailers, reviews and all that, for the last 10 months. So after the curtain rose, I did my best, to be a good boy and inhale every microsecond of The Fountain, to get a grasp of it all and let it move me to another place. But what can I say it did not always work. Why was it so, was it because I have seen In my Fathers Den yesterday, which gets everything out of little situations, by brilliant acting, a beautiful scenery, a lot of quiet scenes and slow pacing. Or was it because I felt it was all of a bit too much for only one hour and 40 something. In PI he managed to get all this serious distress and all the tension out of almost only one actor and all the beautiful sets and camera moves including a brilliant soundtrack. In Tha Fountain there is just too much and as has been said before, the characters are just not really with you or vice versa. But it's not seriously bad, what really makes me sad is just that a little more time would have solved almost all the problems, if you want to call them that. Since it still is a pretty far out and great movie, it just is not the masterpiece, it could have been. I hope there will be a long version on DVD, since that seems to be the case with most of the epic movies these days, that we get to see the real movie only on DVD. So the cinema-goers don't get bored since they seem to have a really short attention span, in the eyes of the studios and producers that is. I wonder why we even bother to go there in the first place, then. If not to beat up on idiotic munchers, eating noisy food all the way through and forgetting to turn their cellphones of. But I lost track here, Go see the movie and decide for yourself, whether it is the masterpiece, we've all been expecting and wanting it to be so much, till the end, believe me or just not quite.