Saturday, March 29, 2008
The Foutain
If you are in the mood for a hauntingly, beautiful and heart wrenching love story, go rent the movie, The Fountain. It's hard to explain what it's about, other than to say it's about a love that transcends all boundaries. It's beautifully done, more like watching a painting than a movie. The visuals are amazing and the music is just as good. If you're anything like me, you'll probably cry too, but it's worth. It was a great movie! Not the best movie to watch while I'm nervous about Brett being out of town and traveling on the Greyhound bus at all hours of the night, but none the less, worth it.
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Like I can watch movies with all these cool scrapbook supplies surrounding me! (a post on that is forthcoming by the way...)
So what is Brett doing on a bus?
Hated it.
The night before I read your post, we watched 20 minutes and turned it off. After I read your post - I gave it another shot. I hate to admit it but I didn't get it. I think I need you to explain it to me.
Zurcher, you suck.
Anna, it was hard to follow at first, but I thought it all came together at the end. I'm not sure if I can explain other than he spent his life trying to figure out a cure to save her, and fell just short.
She wrote a manuscript that was narrating the "other world" scenes. In the other world, he was searching for the tree of life so he and the queen could live together forever, when he found the tree, and ate the sap, he became part of it. In the "real world" she was at the museum and was reading the myan tale of the tree of life and it said that the person who found it (I think) ate the sap and then the tree grew through him and he became par of the tree. That's what happened in the "other world" when he found the tree. In the world where he was in a bubble, the tree was his wife and he was trying to get to the star that was dying, remember she told him that the star was dying and was surrounded by another star. When the dying star finally died, it would be reborn and live forever. So he was trying to get her to that star so when it died, they would be reborn and would live forever together.
Few! Ok, so it had 3 different story lines, but they were all involving him trying to save her life because he loved her so much that he wanted to live with her forever. I might not have explained that the best way possible, but I tried. And apparently I'm the only person in America that loved that movie! HA!
Okay I think that I would have followed it without the bubble world. That is what really threw me off. Well, the first 20 minutes is rather crazy to put things together anyway. So when did that bubble world exist? Was it before or after the world where she had cancer? Was it part of his imagination?
I felt like I was on drugs this weekend because we also watched "Across the Universe". I didn't much like that either. I think I'm alone in that opinion though. I know a lot of people liked it.
I believe this movie was a beautiful perspective of love, life and death. It was interesting to me that Hugh Jackman's role represented man's struggle to control death. Death is the only thing in life that man has no power over. You don't really fight or battle death; you only surrender to it and that's what Rachel's role tried to tell him.
The inspiration of the movie was that while death is promised to every man; love transcends death. Love lives past death. That's what she meant by "we will live together forever."
We live most of our lives trying to reject death, not really realizing that after being born, death is the next really big transition.
It's definitely something to ponder.
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