immortality is a fickle beast
1500 A.D
A conquistador, in service to his queen, seeks out the fabled Tree of Life and the immortality it can bring.
2000 A.D
A doctor, highly skilled in medical research, strives to find anything to stave off death for his terminally ill wife.
2500 A.D.
An enlightened man, in a miraculous ship, takes a tree on a journey across the known universe to the Aztec land of the dead.
So what's the key point to all this?
It's the same guy.
Not bad for a thousand years.
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10:37 PM 8/14/07 · This isn't a one lifespan kinda deal so much as the path of reincarnation. Not my preferred method of crossing eternity but it's not the worse way to go. It's not filmed in chronological order and it leaps back forth between the 3 time periods seemingly randomly. For the most part there is a beginning and end as you watch the three different points but occasionally even they pop backwards and forwards.
It can be a little confusing if you haven't seem a couple movies like this...
...which I have!
I was initially attracted to this film as much for the fact that Hugh Jackman is in it as that it dealth with immortality. Admittedly, the nature of that immortality wasn't what I had thought it was. I'd thought it was a single story starting in the distant past. Instead it's three separate stories that strangely connect to each other.
Not just his life either.
Rachel Weisz is along this journey with him. First as his queen, then as his wife, and then as a ghost...or perhaps a tree. That last one is a bit hard to grasp and I went through it twice.
Truly an extraordinary piece of work...and it took a damned long time to make. If you see it then I suggest you take a long break and then come back to watch the making of it because it's almost as long than the film itself is.
The Fountain is a masterpiece in my eyes.
A conquistador, in service to his queen, seeks out the fabled Tree of Life and the immortality it can bring.
2000 A.D
A doctor, highly skilled in medical research, strives to find anything to stave off death for his terminally ill wife.
2500 A.D.
An enlightened man, in a miraculous ship, takes a tree on a journey across the known universe to the Aztec land of the dead.
So what's the key point to all this?
It's the same guy.
Not bad for a thousand years.
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10:37 PM 8/14/07 · This isn't a one lifespan kinda deal so much as the path of reincarnation. Not my preferred method of crossing eternity but it's not the worse way to go. It's not filmed in chronological order and it leaps back forth between the 3 time periods seemingly randomly. For the most part there is a beginning and end as you watch the three different points but occasionally even they pop backwards and forwards.
It can be a little confusing if you haven't seem a couple movies like this...
...which I have!
I was initially attracted to this film as much for the fact that Hugh Jackman is in it as that it dealth with immortality. Admittedly, the nature of that immortality wasn't what I had thought it was. I'd thought it was a single story starting in the distant past. Instead it's three separate stories that strangely connect to each other.
Not just his life either.
Rachel Weisz is along this journey with him. First as his queen, then as his wife, and then as a ghost...or perhaps a tree. That last one is a bit hard to grasp and I went through it twice.
Truly an extraordinary piece of work...and it took a damned long time to make. If you see it then I suggest you take a long break and then come back to watch the making of it because it's almost as long than the film itself is.
The Fountain is a masterpiece in my eyes.