The Fountain, released in 2006, features Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in three time periods - the 16th century, near future, and 26th century. It's a movie about life and death, it's meaning, and so on.
It's a really dense movie that didn't totally appeal to me, but got a bit more interesting as it went on, and what it definitely has an interesting history - Brad Pitt was supposed to star in it, backed out, and the financing fell apart. The $70 million budget was eventually slashed in half and the movie got made with the final cast.
Warner released the DVD this year but for some reason refused to add a director's commentary, so the director, Darren Aronofsky, recorded one anyway in his living room in NY, and made the full version available on his site:
www.darrenaronofsky.com
This clip is a 10 minute highlight reel of his commentary, jumping through various parts of the movie.
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qualmI just watched this online last week. In parts it's quite stunning. The concept of the glass sphere/ancient tree/celestial journey is interesting. Also one of the more moving depictions of romantic love I've seen in some time. But it's flawed in many ways. 8/10
budzosTo me this film is so beautiful that it's painful to watch. Qualm... watch the DVD ffs... flash video is no way to watch something like this.
qualmIt was up on Stage6 for a bit - a dvd rip. I'll probably see it again sometime.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)
I really wanted to like this movie.
It's not that I needed gadgets and tech - but I thought it was trying too hard to be enigmatic at the expense of telling a real story.
I don't mind a blend of spirtuality and SF - but I don't think they pulled it off here.
qualmI thought the narrative was a bit disjointed the way they grafted the three temporal realms with what was essentially a traditional love story. In my view the film's grace was all in the very beautiful idea of travelling through space with an ancient tree in a transparent sphere. It was also quite clever in parts eg. that the branches of the tumour of Winslet's character that we see in x-ray at one point directly forshadows the shape of the tree.
8727says...this was an awesome film. probably a bit too deep for some...
swedishfriendsays...Love this film. Less weird than it seems if you think about it. Definitely more science than the fantastical in actuality. Powerful emotional scenes mixed with powerful meditative scenes in a gorgeous package.
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