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For a trully brilliant film, watch 'The Fountain'

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It is a visually stunning movie, and the story is actually very simple contrary to what people think. The movie jumps back and forth causing people to think too hard, and miss what is actually happening. I'm not going to give a spoiler but pm me if you weren't able to understand the story.
 
This is an incredible film, and I highly encourage anyone that didnt like it, to watch it again, and then watch all the special features that come with it. It is truly a piece of art, and I think thats how the film should be viewed.

I was completely blown away when I watched the behind the scenes footage on how it was made. All those space sequences where the character is moving towards death/life were made by compositing natural and chemical reactions taking place in petri dishes onto the footage. Peter Parks who is a legendary macro photography did some very innovative work on the film. Spending many hours setting off colorful chemical reactions and filming them in Macro.

I must say I struggle to put the film into descriptive words, but for me it was about a man dealing with attachment and loss, it was about the constant motion of life and death that we ultimately have no control over. It was about the glorious realization that Death is not the end, but the beginning. And that if we can truly let go, we will realise that to be a part of this cycle is to be a part of the most beautiful experience of them all.

Aranofsky put into pictures a very deep understanding of the cycles of life and death. I would have thought anyone on here would appreciate it for this reason.
 
For me I loved the way the film was made, I saw a way in which the story related to me on a very personal level. The visuals I liked, and the sound track I love, I even downloaded the sound track I thought it was that beautiful. Even though I thought it could have been mastered alot better.
 
I was intrigued but ultimately disappointed. I wanted philosophy but I got nonsense. I loved the Mayan bits, particularly when the priest recognises him as First Father, then he goes and drinks the sap and the treelings of the tree of life grow from him, just like King Pakal of Palenque's tombstone. But the bits with the Queen of Spain were pretty cheesey. I expect it would be awesome if you watched it in an altered state yourself! Visually stunning. I preferred Blueberry and Apocalypto. Sorry to be a bummer! Someone needs to make a great entheogen film... one that will do for entheos what Out of Africa did for, um, Africa...
 
ohayoco said:
I wanted philosophy but I got nonsense.
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I found it deeply philosophical, and it made a lot of sense if you think about the film from a different point of view. It wasn't an obvious film, it didn't lead the viewer along a straight forward path, so maybe thats what left you feeling unsatisfied. It left a lot of blanks that you needed to fill in yourself with a bit of thought and perhaps another watch.
 
the interviews and behind the scenes footage really pulled it all together for me, a lot of the scenes and shots make much more sense after you hear the theory behind them
 
I understood what it was getting at, I just wasn't convinced. I watched the interview when he explains it straight after the film. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy watching it overall :)
 
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