Last night I watched The Fountain, the semi-new film by Darren Aronofsky starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. First of all, I’d like to say that I’ve been looking forward to seeing this film ever since I accidentally stumbled upon it in IMDB. I happen to think that Aronofsky is a genius and therefore any movie being made by him is an automatic “must see” for me (Requiem for a Dream is what turned me on to Aronofsky’s work, I’d recommend checking it out). As a consequence of this, I had been hyping up this film in my mind for a while now. Usually whenever I do this, the film ends up being terrible (Spiderman 3…I mean c’mon, emo Peter Parker?) or just plain not meeting the exceptionally high expectations I set for it(Pan’s Labyrinth…I know I’m gonna get a lot of negative comments for this, but I thought it was just pretty good. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I liked it, but I just don’t know that I would say it was amazing). The Fountain however, was amazing. It it matched my skyscraper expectations and then some. The blurb on the back of the dvd cover said something to the effect of it being the only movie that will break your heart and blow you away. I don’t know if I’d say it broke my heart, but it definately blew me away. Without giving away too much of the story, it takes place in 3 different time periods with Jackman searching for the key to eternal life. In one time period Jackman is a conquistador, another one takes place in modern day, and the final one takes place an unknown number of years in the future. That’s all I’m going to say about the plot because it really should be discovered by watching the movie. If you want to learn more you can always IMDB it (I’ll put the link at the bottom), but I would recommend renting (or ordering, buying, whatever) it the next time you’re in the mood to watch a movie. If you’ve already seen it, how did you like it? As always, feel free to let me know what you think!
Here’s the link to The Fountain’s IMDB page: http://imdb.com/title/tt0414993/
Pan’s Labyrinth was…..just okay, The fountain was…AMAZING and also you actually went to see spiderman 3?