Death is inevitable,it is not a disease that can be cured.......

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2010)

Three parallel stories revolves around the two characters in different time periods but there are invisible threads connecting this three stories.Each story is the journey of a man to save his beloved one from the certain death.A doctor trying to find the cure for his wife dying from cancer,a warrior in the ancient Spain to save his queen trying to find a tree which according to ancient Mayan myth is the source for life in Earth,and the third story is of a man traveling in the space to save the dying tree.First story which is the real story and other two stories are used as symbolism and interpretations to make us realize the message and to express the purpose of the movie.
The plot of the movie looks very simple on the surface,Darren Aronofsky use the ancient myths and mysteries of universe as the symbolism to raise the questions on life and death.The Fountain is the movie which does not depend on it's story but on what will we experience after watching the movie,you cannot know what movie delivers by just reading it's story on the page you have to experience the movie on your own. What i felt about the movie is that this is a great effort but it lacks in vision and focus.Due to it's lack of clear insight the movie failed to get us to the destined point and the message of the movie get lost and remained unclear and at the end i was left unsatisfied.
The Fountain is not like other Hollywood mainstream sci-fi cinema,this movie reminds me of the Andrew Tarnofynsky's movies,The Solyaris and The Stalker which deals with the same questions and philosophy of human life,it's existence and it's purpose through symbolism.But this movie is not as complete and insightful as those movies but still a good experience to watch.
The best thing about the movie is it's beautiful cinematography,it's editing and its mesmerizing music given by Clint Massel.This three things makes the movie a visually captivating and eye-pleasing experience to watch but it failed to be eye-opening experience for me.The movie have outstanding performance of Rachelz Weisz but Hugh Jackman could have done much better job here,i think he was not the right choice for the role.
Darren Aronofsky is a very talented director with a great vision,his every work took out some deep thoughts from inside of us forces us to face the harsh reality of human life,the sorrow,the failure,the death.His works always remains like a very sad poem with a message.The Fountain is so far the worst movie from him but still have strength to distinct itself from other movies we see nowadays,you can see the fingerprints of a brilliant and visionary artist in his bad movie too.