A spiritual movie...

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2006)

I've just watched The Fountain at the Copenhagen Film Festival. A lot of puzzled, but also blown away people left the theater, especially with such a poetic, arch-typical and climatic ending.
In an effort to provide some help for those still searching for "meaning" in this wonderful, layered film, I would like to humbly suggest delving into some of the Kabbala teachings which the authors surely have under their belt, perhaps even check-out the Gospel of Philip (from the Gnostic library; all those quotes about Heavenly Marriage, Eve and Adam, and all the Magdalenes surrounding Jesus :).
And then, those more technical minded people perhaps, could also look-up some of the books and passages from the authorship of Alice A. Bailey, dealing with the subject of Initiation (points of crisis and break-through in the process of spiritual growth), namely those writings on the 4th initiation.
I have not argued specifically for the spirituality in this film, as it must be up to people to explore that pathway for themselves - ie. with no more spoilers given directly here (which an adequate argument for "a spiritual interpretation" would include in spades) :).