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I will concede the film is not a great success. Too many screens of blinding lights. Too many transitions for their own sake. Abrupt changes of tone.
The Fountain is the story of a gifted artist who dared to reach for the stars and paid for his ambition with a really stupid movie.
Mr. Aronofsky's outlook on life remains too constantly pessimistic for my taste, and too completely joyless as well.
This is one of the worst movies of the year.
The movie may have significant truths to impart, although I have my doubts, but it feels too inexperienced, too unworldly, to have earned the right to them.
A tagline has been affixed to the campaign -- 'What if you could live forever?' -- and it has a certain resonance, especially after seeing the film, which makes 96 minutes seem like eternity.
Visual alchemist Darren Aronofsky's most personal work is a double helix of love and loss - death entwined with life as existence's only reliable truths. It offers a transfixing merger of biological imperatives and musings on creativity and tragedy.
It's difficult to recall another American film that, in pursuing a passionate and personal vision, goes so maddeningly, uproariously wrong.
The continuous sense of deeply felt discovery tempers the movie's overreaching pretentiousness
You can judge for yourself whether a money shot of semenesque tree-sap is a proper payoff, but the movie is at least texturally rich, tonally consistent (brooding, always) and much fussed over by its maker.
Epic sci-fi romance explores faith and love.
This film raises an interesting question: How far is a viewer willing to follow a talented filmmaker down a rabbit hole, when it becomes clear that said filmmaker has lost his way?
It's a simple story told with Zen directness, its fingers deep in the age-old questions, its eyes and ears wide open to the sensual potential of cinema.
So simple, so elaborate, and yet so utterly brilliant...
Despite its flaws, it's still worth watching.
Seldom in cinema has eschatology been treated with such intelligence, or inspired such aching awe.
Yes, The Fountain is ridiculously pretentious, pining for your attention like a sixth grade emo kid. And I love it to pieces.
If one is to be left with something in the end, it is the realization that its creator is fully in love with not just the result of his art, but the very happening of it.
Si, puede ser demasiado, pero de alguna manera Aronofsky, aunque arriesgando caer en el exceso y hasta en el ridículo, se las arregla para que el relato sea atrapante (...)
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