The Fountain (probably spoilers)

[Merkuri]

Has anyone else seen this? Awayfarer and I watched it last night and neither of us really know what to think about it. I feel like it's the type of movie they might've made me watch in high school English, and then asked me to write a paper about it. It also reminded me of 2001: Space Odyssey in the sense that some of it was coherent and other parts were an acid trip.

The jury's still out with me on this one. I'd like to hear what other EN Worlders have thought of it, though... assuming anyone's actually heard of it but us.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

To be honest, my head still hurts when I think about it.

2001 is a movie I love but this...just...ow.

 

[GSHamster]

I enjoyed it.

But then again, I like slow, lyrical movies that may or may not make a whole lot of sense.

 

[demon_jr808]

I enjoyed it alot. Very beautiful imagery. Made me think alot, although I still don't quite understand the movie fully. I had to come to some of my own conclusions.

 

[Knightfall]

To be honest, my head still hurts when I think about it.

2001 is a movie I love but this...just...ow.

Me too, and I had a chance to watch it twice. It was like driving by a horrible accident, you can't help but be fascinated by the spectacle, but after you gone by it you feel a little sick to your stomach.

 

[TwistedBishop]

Saw this a couple times not far back. It works fantastically well as visual representation of the grieving process, at least in my opinion. I think people get too hung up on the space stuff being literal, which, naturally, makes the whole thing absurd.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Me too, and I had a chance to watch it twice. It was like driving by a horrible accident, you can't help but be fascinated by the spectacle, but after you gone by it you feel a little sick to your stomach.

But...with a car wreck, I know why I get sick. I know what of that makes me feel so bad.

With this movie, I just don't know. I think that's what bothers me the most about it. Yes, the visuals are beautiful but the story and the...everything else are just a headache. I don't know why it hurts to think about it. I'm not sure that knowing would make it better or worse. I just don't know...

For me, 2001, which The Fountain was compared to in a way, made sense. It had a plot, followed it, and though it got a little trippy at the end, I could connect things and make sense of it. But The Fountain just...as I said before...ow.

 

[Merkuri]

I think the movie was basically about the "modern day" story of a man who was so caught up with trying to save his wife that he wasted the time he had left with her, and that the other two stories were metaphors for that. In all three, the man has someone or something that is dying (Spain, his wife, the tree), and he is trying to save her, but in the act of saving her, he turns away from her (physically leaves Spain, spends no time with his wife, tries to ignore the images of the tree).

I didn't get a sick feeling from watching the movie, but I was expecting something "artsy" like this and went into it expecting not to fully understand it after just one viewing. I like watching movies like this every once and a while. It's like exercising a part of my brain I haven't used much since college English.