The Fountain is a difficult film to love...

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2020)

...it's messy and beautiful, it fights against its modest budget so it can preserve its message, it's intent on obfuscation in order to hide its depth beneath its lapels, it's clearly a very personal film to its Director and it's very raw and in some ways direct.
It portrays male emotion and the denial of those emotions in an open and candid way in a way that surprised me upon first watching.
I find I can look past it's messiness and see the very simple and very powerful message it's trying to put forward. When viewed as a film that exquisitely simply is an examination of what immortality means to man, told through three stories, exploring if memory, symbols, nature, medicine, enlightenment, or story can preserve someone. The truth is that some of these are a form of immortality, and some are not. To explain too much of it is to kill its magic. But I think it's trying to say that enlightenment is shedding the fear of death.
The Fountain is a very bold sort of cinematic poem, something from Homer or something as derided on release as Moby Dick, where depth and meaning are held within the journey and not always in view. It's rewarding when you understand it, and so what moreso because others do not, but hey may yet.