a touching story about the truth of immortality

Rating: 10/10 (1 February 2007)

I thought The Fountain was beautifully filmed and deeply moving,but were my friend and I the only ones who thought that the scenes from Spain and the Mayan jungle were the first part of the book written by Rachel Weiss character Izzy and the journey to the Orion nebula and the later jungle scenes were the final chapter written by Tommy(Hugh Jackman)in which he came to understand that death could only be conquered by accepting and embracing it, or that's how it seemed to us anyway. It was sort of like The Neverending Story for adults without the tedious narrative. However it was interpreted though, it was one of the most hauntingly lovely films I have seen and both Rachel Weiss and Hugh Jackman played their parts so well you could almost have thought that they were a real couple facing the unthinkable, the untimely death of a loved one. We sat in the cinema just staring at the final screen for a full minute before we said anything and that doesn't happen often I can tell you.