Death is not awe

Rating: 3/10 (14 May 2012)

Watched "the Fountain" the other day (yes, I know it's an old film). A film with some interesting premises, interesting cinematography, and unusual style, let down abominably by its underlying philosophy: "Death is awe".
Talk about calling evil good! (Rom 1 & Isa 5:20) Death is not awe. You will not be part of a tree. You will not fly with the sparrow when it eats the tree's fruit. Death is a horrible, brutal curse. The doctor was right to "rage, rage against the dying of the night"!
With people desperately afraid of the curse of death, I can understand why the Fountain was so warmly embraced. But it offers a mirage, an illusion. Pretending that death is awe instead of acknowledging that death is awful is just that - a pretence. And one that will not suffice when faced with the awful reality of death.
There is only one who has faced down death and defeated it. Only God Himself, our Lord Jesus, the Christ, could defeat death - and he did so, in our place. In Him, the fear of death is no more - death has no sting. There is only one refuge from death, and it is not in the whimsical folly of an otherwise interesting movie.