ok, I get the story, kinda (or at least I think I kinda get it)...but my husband and I walked out of the theater like..."HUH, WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN THERE?!?!" lol! If somebody can explain the reason for the 3 scenarios throughout the movie, i would really like your input. what's up with him being in that bubble, eating the tree, but then when he drank from the other tree later, he turned into some grass and flowers?!?!
thanks for your help! =)
2006-12-01 02:14:55 · 4 answers · asked by **Lil QT** 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I think the futuristic Hugh Jackman was a metaphysical abstract of all that was happening in Tommy's life - as he was coming to term with Izzi's illness and eventually her death. The movie tries to say that through death you are reborn - and you can't fight death.
The 3 stories are not necessarily connected - the future and past are kind of undertones to the main story.
Yes, it is a difficult movie and very different in concept to your Hollywood popcorn stuff. I liked what Rachel Weisz said in an interview - that it's like going to museum and seeing a painting. Just admiring it for what it does for you - without analyzing too much.
"The Fountain" is one of the weirdest movies I've seen and I absolutely loved it. It's like listening to Beethoven or Mozart - just absorbing the beauty of the art and let it appeal to your senses.
No, I don't think this is comparable to 2001- a Space Odyssey. That one was very futuristic, but also very cold. The Fountain is warm and touching.
Kudos to the Jackman, Weisz & Aronofsky team, for delivering this piece of art.
2006-12-01 02:57:20 · answer #1 · answered by web_researcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't seen it, but there's a terrific site, http://www.themoviespoiler.com People watch movies and then go and write a synopsis of it. Sometimes reading it after I've seen a movie gives me a piece of info I missed and I can piece it together better.
That being said, I've heard it compared to "2001: A Space Oddysey," so it could just be a very avant garde (or weird) movie LOL!
ADDED: Here's what the reviewer at that site concluded:
Tomas and the Queen were Tom and Izzi in another lifetime. Tomas drank too much from the Tree of Life and was thus punished. Later, people found the tree and Tom got his hands on scraps from the tree. After Izzi died from cancer, he planted a tree over her which, in accordance with Mayan myth, she became part of. He used this to stay alive for five hundred years until he was able to get close to what the Mayans thought to be the door to the afterlife, but he was unable to get there before losing Izzi for a second time.
2006-12-01 02:17:53 · answer #2 · answered by tagi_65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, i was totally lost too. i think the first father was reincarnated into the other two "main" guys as he was the soul of the tree...
i really dont know tho, i mean if they were in the nebula and it finally died then how did it bring the tree back to life? and who was taking care of it after that? izzy?? since tommy planted the seed above her grave?
yeah, i was totally lost too.
2006-12-01 02:18:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its about the Fountain of Youth and a couple so inlove they want to live and be together forever.
2006-12-01 04:04:51 · answer #4 · answered by dianewoods_smith 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋