My favorite movie of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2014)

First off, that the first time I saw this, I was slightly disappointed, since I expected something more similar to Aronofsky's first two movies - "Requiem for a Dream" and "Pi". Something raw, something brutal, something in-your-face.
The Fountain is more complicated though. After seeing it for the first time, the music and the visuals never completely left me, and i kept watching it. Again and again. By now i saw this movie more often than any other (ten times so far), and it still does not bore me. In fact, I keep discovering new stuff every single time i see it.
This is one of these rare works of art where every scene, every dialog, every tiny detail in the background, every note in the score, is of importance for the grand overall picture - and what a picture it is indeed!
Life, death, love. The cornerstones that define the human conditions, are what this movie is ultimately about. Most that would have tried to get across the point that "The Fountain" makes would have failed, but not Aronofsky - he delivers it with unmatched visual perfection, and with the help of outstanding acting from his cast.
No movie ever matched the score and the visuals so well. The music is beautiful and haunting at times, and keeps building up momentum, just like the movie does, towards the biggest, most emotional and deepest climax I ever saw in any movie. Be sure to turn the volume up for this one!
An extremely powerful movie, and very thought-provoking at that.