The Fountain (Movie 2006)

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Direction: Darren Aronofsky

Duration: 1hr 36min

Genre: Sci-Fic;Drama

Cast: Hugh Jackman
          Rachel Weisz
          Ellen Burstyn
          Mark Margolis
          Cliff Curtis

Synopsis:

The Fountain manages to unite three stories intertwined five hundred years apart on a single axis. The first story takes place in Spain in the 16th century, the second story today and the third story in space five hundred years later. The common ground of each story can be summarized as ways to achieve immortality.

Tommy, a scientist who is the backbone of the film, is experimenting with monkeys to find a cure for the brain disease that slowly kills his wife Izzy. In one of these experiments, he sees that he stops aging when he injects a liquid from a tree in Central America that has not been calculated. Although this is a revolutionary discovery, it will not heal Izzy. Izzy, on the other hand, is writing a 16th-century novel Ağ The Tree of Life li called The Fountain. But he seems to have already realized that he can't finish this novel. Then we go to the future, when Tom (Tommy's future state) travels through a sphere of space with that possible tree of life. Here, Tom is looking for ways to be together forever with his beloved wife. And there comes a moment that today, past and future are intertwined. As if there was one truth, one wanted at all times.

There is no long life and many experiences in this film, although the search is immortality. So there are no complicated events. There are concepts that can be generalized to every age. Everything can fit easily like pieces of a puzzle. And in the end, it makes the movie say; If the past is Izzy's book, and what Tom has done today in the implicit today is actually a single story, and Izzy writes it.