The search for eternal life

Rating: 7/10 (15 September 2007)

"The Fountain" is a different film. The visual effects, the poetic style, the mythology and the non-linearity of the plot give it a unique style and form, different from everything else! The movie is not easy to understand, because it's all around a metaphysical and philosophical subject: the rebirth after death and the possibility of an eternal life but in the end its greatest value is to present the viewer a beautiful and poetic love story with great visual effects. In fact, visually, the film is very good, in spite of having some "cliché ideas" about what could be an eventual life after death, and the ancestral idea of the Human soul floating in the Universe However, I liked the insertion of the Mayan mythology in the movie. The idea of parallel lives was also good, because it makes us think that time and space are not important, what really matter are the feelings