The film "Fountain", the reviews of which are extremely contradictory, the unpredictable director Darren Aronofsky is called the real science fiction gospel about Adam and Eve. Impressions of the audience are extremely diametrical. According to fans, the picture is poetic and sad, but generally philosophical. But opponents unanimously call the claim tape and too pathetic. Nevertheless, starting with musical accompaniment and colors and ending with acting, everything in it creates a whole, unified atmosphere that encourages reflection on eternal values. This philosophical parable clearly shows how beautiful and truly valuable modern cinema can be.
Lapidary Description
The film "Fountain" (reviews of film critics confirm this) has several key elements. The conquistador (bearded Hugh Jackman) of the Spanish queen, having left the sadistic inquisitor alive, urgently swims to the Maya Indians in search of the last miracle tree left from the Garden of Eden. An oncologist (the same Jackman, but already shaved) conducts a test on a chimpanzee of a certain substance from the Amazonian jungle, in a futile attempt to save his beautiful wife (Rachel Weiss), who writes the novel “Fountain”, from the tumor. The 2006 film was not limited to this, there is also a sad astronaut (Jackman bald and pale) from the future, who flies in a transparent biosphere to a mysterious star nebula to connect with her lover, who the oncologist and his sick wife are closely studying from their balcony into an improved spyglass the pipe. That's all the lapidary and concrete description of the storyline of the film. It should be noted that for the whole existence of the cinema, stories and worse joined together, however, you still feel some confusion from the way Hollywood producers risked investing millions of dollars in this zatyvachitschina and releasing the finished project for rent.
Six years is not a deadline
Creator Darren Aronofsky in the late 90s earned a reputation as a true, universally recognized cult director with the films “Requiem for a Dream” and “Number Pi”. The film "Fountain", the description of which was given above, "tormented" for about six years. In the beginning, it was planned to invite Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt to the main roles, however, while the project was developing, the performers of the central characters were Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman. After its premiere at the Venice Festival, the film "Fountain", which only the lazy and illiterate did not bother to leave reviews, split film critics into ardent admirers and implacable opponents. In any case, the picture could qualify for the Academy Award in the nomination “The Most Beautiful Film of the Year” (if such was awarded), because it desperately intertwines three times, and the plot spans a millennium.
A rare film and a cult director
It is rather difficult to understand the “Fountain”; far from everything is deciphered in it. Uninformed, unprepared viewers could be given a brief synopsis before watching, then they would immediately, “on the move”, join in the action and it would be more interesting for them. Undoubtedly, there were films more complicated: “Stalker” or “Last year in Marienbad”, but this one is far from simple. No wonder, because as a true creator, Darren Aronofsky dreamed of making a motion picture of his life (although he is not yet forty). The essence of the film “Fountain” is all the most important in human life: death, the search for the meaning of life, eternal dreams of immortality, eternal love. It is clear that such a deep film was doomed to provoke extremely extreme reviews.
The main complaint
A strange tendency in our society - any director should encroach on eternal or global topics, as he immediately becomes the object of ridicule. Yesterday they idolized him, and today they write: “Why is he climbing into Kubrick and Castaneda ?!” And they do not forgive the genius that they simply allow the plain and superficial filmmakers, dumbasses. One of the main claims to the picture is excessive seriousness and a complete lack of humor. Strange, is death and immortality spoken exclusively of jokes-jokes? Separate reviews are real feuilleton with stupid and vulgar headlines, such as "Give the fountain a rest" or, worse, "Shut the fountain". The 2006 film should not be perceived very speculatively, trying in vain to extract the theory of being from the narrative or to seek out only absurdities. It is better to indulge in some meditation while watching a movie, in which case the pleasure of watching is guaranteed. Moreover, in comparison with other films, the film "Fountain" (reviews note this especially) is quite short.
Futuristic daydream
Time, of course, will judge everyone, but nevertheless one innovative idea by the director has been accurately implemented. Aronofsky, creating a film like a futuristic daydream, ventured into an experiment. He replaced all digital special effects with macro shots of special liquid substances that react with each other in the laboratory. It was they who gave the picture a perfect enchanting atmosphere, putting in jeopardy the entire used computer industry of cinema. So much for the Fountain. The meaning of the film from this innovation was not affected.
Fountain and Odyssey
With his enigmatic prominences, Darren seemed to accidentally create the long-awaited answer to the motionless Kubrick monolith (Odyssey 2001). It is worth noting that the structure of both paintings is identical. According to the plot of both films, the time of action tends to longed for eternity, Aronofsky is more modest, all within a millennium, but Kubrick has millions of years. Eternity in films is cut into three segments and in the climax, the protagonist passes through outer space and time. And the Kubrick supermind corresponds to the superliving tree in the movie Fountain. Actors and their roles in the films are not amenable to comparison.
Confused story
In principle, the catastrophic discrepancy in reviews between film critics, who have so far put Aronofsky deuces and cola, and the audience indicates that both opposing camps have less and less common topics for dialogue. There remains one more category - people who think, who are not stupid from the modern mainstream and are always ready to be bewitched by some kind of “new unprecedented fantasticness”. It is they who declare: “The Fountain” is the best film! ”
Prospects
The film "Fountain" reviews are mixed. The fact is that he is extremely vulnerable to individuals prone to ridicule, resonators, skeptics and other admirers of realism and common sense. Also, it will not appeal to people so smart that they are unable to admire the comic nonsense in which the tree flies to the stars, the main character falls into a nebula, Tao is attributed to Maya, and everyone is covered with the book "Sephiroth". But those viewers who are open to everything new, unusual, will definitely see significant prospects behind the picture, and who consider the film “not a fountain”, most likely, will remain with the infamous “broken trough”. The film “Fountain” is a complex, talented and sad, slightly crazy and extremely sincere film about Eternal Love - the primary source of that same Life Force. After all, this film is only technically, but in the rest it is a real picture, a work of art with incomparable spiritual potential.