A Serious Slaughterhouse-Five Update

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2019)

Unfortunately, whether due to lack of sleep or the movie, I fell asleep during part of the movie. Personally, I think I was tired. The closest movie that can be contrasted with this movie is Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) but without the lighter and more action-oriented thrills. This experimental looking, somewhat uneven movie is one of the few widely released fresh and innovative attempts at film-making in years. The ending is consistent with the more esoteric, but quality films. The possible interpretations and the whole look and approach to the theme of life and death is refreshing and bold. Confusing and slow in places, this movie doesn't shy away from its attempt to conceptually and visually fuse the concept of universal holy grail. Possibly an excellent movie, but one that requires a second look, like Solaris. 8/10. After almost 12 years and thanks to VUDU, I was able to see The Fountain for a second time (with ads of course) on my laptop (but with noise-cancelling high-quality Sony headphones) while fully awake. In the interim though, I've come to really enjoy Rachel Weisz as an actress so that I've also developed a personal, emotional bias into liking many movies in which she is in. I would place this movie into the esoteric, imaginatively photographically gorgeous film experience incorporating the universal immortality, morality tale along with infusing the movie with love and life and death themes that can impact the audience on the a deeply emotional level. Oddly enough, this movie doesn't really add much in the way of new material, and yet Darren Aronofsky created a film that is better than its separate movie elements parts and plot points. As to whether, this movie can be considered a major breakthrough movie like a classic, still remains to be seen (as a timeless period of this art media may tell). Reviewed 12/3/2018. 8/10.