don't think, see

Rating: 9/10 (25 November 2006)

the concept betrays the perfunctory audience, the film industry itself was created to render a world of streamlined constituents and plot. aronofsky has produced a tapestry - it is a work of art and the first film i have seen in several years that goes about its own existence and self-awareness in a method of ambivalence. our cultural identity is long defined by books - their importance was contingent on our myriad explications. aronofsky makes no comments on what we should feel at the end of the fountain, it is an experience by itself and in that we are allowed to find our own meaning. i recommend this film to anyone who thought every last vestige of art had been perverted. there is hope. get your ticket and just take the painting in, just sit and ignore the whispers of less aware audience members, and see the intricacy and consciousness. the film has its flaws, but if you look at it on the macro level it is an impressive feat of craft.