Death, is not the end.

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2007)

'The Fountain' wasn't released to theatres here in Australia, so the first time I had heard about it was seeing is as a new release DVD. Because Hugh and Rachael are in it I thought to give it a go.
And after watching it for the first time, I had to watch it again. And thought it was absolutely amazing. I found some of the comments about this movie being gobbledy goop upsetting, because they didn't really interpret the film at all.
The story main focus is on Hugh character Tomas. And has one reality (Dr. Tom Creo trying to find a cure for the cancer which is killing his wife) and two subplot fantasy realities (The first being his wife's story about a Spanish Queen sending her conquistador to find the 'tree of life' in South America. And the second being in the future where he has found the 'tree of life' but it is dying *It represents him trying to fight the truth of the situations which are happening in his life, and his eventual acceptance*).
The tree is symbolic - it is his search of the cure, but it also represents his wife. He is obsessed with finding a cure to save her life as opposed to spending the time loving this wife with the little time she really has left.
Well, I think it's brilliant movie and if you have ever lost someone you know the inner turmoil and guilt that eats inside you, and even thought it is hard accepting the fact that they are gone.