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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Darren Aronofsky |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 22 November, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Abstract Film, Adult Situations, Atmospheric, Color, Death of a Spouse, Drama, Dreamlike, Dying Young, Eerie, English, Feature, Feature Film Action Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Hallucinatory, Lyrical, Movie, Not For Children, Obsessive Quests, Psychological Sci-Fi, Reincarnation |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085392837625 |
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Customer Reviews of The Fountain (Widescreen Edition)
A masterpiece One of the few masterpieces of film in recent years. It is many years ahead of its time, and certainly not for everyone. If you have already experienced the sentiments expressed by this film, you'll find them echoed in it beautifully, but if you've never wondered about the kinds of issues the film handles, you'll find yourself bored to tears or groaning at its earnestness. It is too strange, too abstract for the everyman, but that's fine, because it reaches right to the core of its intended audience. <
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>Without any doubt Aronofsky's most mature and well-crafted effort - he has grown leaps and bounds since "Requiem for a Dream" and this is definitely his most intensely personal film to date. He has managed to reach inside himself, draw out and present - for the first time, I feel - some very ineffable and sublime emotional aspects that are a part of every human being. Compared to his two previous films - which felt more like "hey, that's a cool/interesting idea, let me explore it..." - he has truly managed to do the job of an artist, which is to move people in ways they won't easily forget and ultimately have a lasting impact on them. <
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>Art film as art film was meant to be. And did, in the time of the old masters (Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, etc): not pretentious, not laden with "emotional pornography" or excessive sex/intellectualism but the most brutally honest expression of people who have studied human psychology/spirituality for years and synthesised it into a narrative.
Shoddy sci-fi wannabe and discerning audience never mix well
Summary: take a Spanish conquistador, a shaved tree-hugger and a monkey brain surgeon as embodiments of the same fellow; add to it generous quantity of corny cliched dialogues and you have the Fountain.
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>It is an over-"intellectualized" and over-"spiritualized" sci-fi drivel melodrama kind of a flick.
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An epic movie
I first heard about "The Fountain" a few years back at San Diego Comic Con. Aronofsky seemed really hyped about it and showed us a few clips. After seeing them I was amazed but confused, and thats how I felt when I viewed the entire film years later, but after thinking about the film and discussing it with some friends I figured it out and I was blown away by its beautiful complexity. "The Fountain" follows three story lines. The first is about a scientist whose wife is dieing of brain steam cancer. He spends all of his time devoted to finding a cure but to no avail. The second follows his wife when she takes up a hobbie and writes a book about a conquistador who is sent on a quest to find the fountian of youth for his queen. Her book is played out in live action as she's writing it and provides a really cool tie in to the film. The third story is the strangest. It basiclly watches the scientist as he floats up through space in a big bubble(Stay with me here)while he meditates by a big tree. These three parts intertwine to make one of the most inovative and visually stunning films I've ever seen. It's hard to explain how beautiful the film is and it's honestly one of those "You have to see it to believe it" cases. Alot of people who say they didn't like "The Fountian" say it's because they didn't understand it. Just because YOU didn't understand dosen't make it bad. "The Fountain" needs consentration and dedication but it's a film that will definitely reward you for them. enjoy.