A beautiful metaphor for the intimate relationship between life and death

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2010)

I will try not to spoil the movie with the following descriptions but rather avoid the confusion of some viewers expecting this movie to be something that it's not. So first things first.
There is no timetravelling, no parallel universes/realities no fantasy world.
There is actually only one real story, of a neuroscientist trying obsessively to save his dying wife who was suffering of brain cancer. In her final days she was writing a novel(The Fountain) which was also her way of processing her near death. Besides, the story was also intended to make her husband understand why she lost her fear of death. For that, she left the book unfinished and asked him to write the final chapter. The story of the novel plays probably in the early 16th century in Spain and Central America(Mayan territory) and is one of the three, some reviewers are talking about. The "third" story is just a visualization of what was going on within his mind/soul and is very dreamlike.
ENJOY!